This is to introduce a new Substack premiering Monday, March 24, 2025 called The Inoculator. The goal of The Inoculator is to help students and their families avoid indoctrination at any college or university in the country.
At The Inoculator site you will find information on how to subscribe for our specific college reports. (NOTE: The typo in the link to The Inoculator at the end of this post has been fixed. Sorry for the confusion.)
WHAT IS THE INOCULATOR?
One of the key areas in which Americans voted for change on November 5, 2024 was education. Candidate Donald Trump promised to overhaul it in multiple ways, even to eliminating the bureaucratic and useless US Department of Education under which education has only gotten worse.
President Trump has a reputation for honoring his pledges and it is already apparent he is moving forward.
Education—public, private or homeschooled—is arguably the most important function of a free society. It is also among the most complex, affecting nearly every citizen.
The process of reform will take years as the failures in our system have been many. No one person or initiative can do it alone. Even with DEI putatively jettisoned and education policy returned to the states, where it was always intended to be, much work remains.
The Inoculator encompasses one specific but hugely important area.
The purpose of The Inoculator is to deal with the problem of institutionalized bias in our higher educational system and eventually to eliminate it.
Many prospective students and their families are dissatisfied with higher education today, some because of questions of financial efficacy (is it worth it?), yet more because of that evident bias pervading the vast majority of our colleges, often obscuring or distorting learning and turning education into propaganda.
Still, many of these same students have good and necessary reasons for wanting to attend a college, whether at a state school nearby or one far away.
The Inoculator therefore provides a roadmap for them and their families to how we believe students can best avoid this indoctrination in whatever college they choose among the nearly 3000 in our country.
Since the heaviest indoctrination usually occurs in the required general education courses, The Inoculator provides a specific guide to the best (least biased) of those courses.
Arranged by general education categories, we believe these classes are less apt to indoctrinate and offer the best chance of a valuable education and true learning.
This has been done in a highly specific, detailed manner, that we do not believe can be found elsewhere.
This enables the student not only to choose his or her courses to avoid the bias once in college but, during the application process, to review with his or her family the offerings at different schools to enhance the process of selecting a college in the first place.
We are not foolproof, however, and recognize that these selections are ever changing. We solicit, indeed welcome, feedback from those who have experienced particular courses.
You can visit The Inoculator site here for additional details.
At 80, barring reincarnation, I will thankfully not have to reattend Antioch College - though as an ed major there in the '60s, we helped reinvent home schooling.
NOTE: The typo in the link to The Inoculator at the end of this post has been fixed. Very sorry for the confusion.