Long before most of you remember, the Czar predicted that the Next Big Thing to blow up on the Left will be academia. Stiff competition from online schools, skyrocketing tuitions, zero-guarantee job placement, and repeated exposure about how stupid the intellectuals have become are all major contributors. People are basically sick of the product.

While the Czar maintains this is inevitable, we should not expect that by 2016, everything about campus life will be some Puritan ideal. For the next 50 years, easily, campus life will still revolve around booze, sex, nutty stunts, and—likely to an increasing extent—drugs. Schools will still treat party as a verb and will silently and furtively compete on that level.

But some of the focus of studies will become overtly conservative. Too good to be true?

Academia is basically run by the hippies, radicals, and left wing morons who used to do sit-ins in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The weird crap that’s coming out of colleges and universities today is what they believe. These are the fools in charge: just as the music, clothes, car brands, styles, and artwork are all retro throwbacks. The VPs in charge of these industries are all flower children now, eagerly trying to recapture their misspent youth by turning today’s kids into younger versions of themselves. Well, academia is doing the same thing.

Except that death is coming anyway. Your 50-something and 60-something professor is living large espousing social justice, alternative history, and deconstructionist thinking to a new generation of texters and tweeters, but retirement is drawing near. And as the Boomers finally retire and see how shitty they’ve made retirement for themselves, academia will be desperate to replace them.

And while there is no evident shortage of left wing liberal goofs to take the place, the reality is that the next senior fellow deans will be people raised under Carter and Reagan, when the argument of liberal versus conservative was all too clearly obvious. These folks will have seen the brutal side of communism, liked Red Dawn and Rambo: First Blood Part II, despised yuppies, rejected multiculturalism, poked fun at political correctness, and hated tax increases.

Certainly, this won&#146t lead to a resurgence of Max Headroom and acid wash jeans, but there will be a more conservative stripe ingrained in their attitudes. Probably it will start by conservative viewpoints being more tolerated.

And we already see that numerous schools have indeed started. Courses in capitalism are now being taught. Although it is safe to say that interpretation, emphasis, and talking points will vary from school to school—almost always with capitalism’s faults stressed—it will be difficult for instructors to prevent all their students from appreciating the engine that makes America succeed. That we are even discussing this is a major shift in academic circles.

The upshot is that in 15 years, students can safely put up Republican campaign literature on their dorm doors without expecting it to be vandalized or torn down; students can espouse conservative viewpoints in a class without being censured or failed. Maybe—just maybe—a student will hear both sides and conclude that conservatives have a better game plan in the long term.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.