My kids can go to any college they want but I wont pay for Harvard or Columbia

Should your kids go to Harvard? Many parents have their doubts — and liberals seem to be shocked.Last week Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy made the question go viral.Duffy and his wife Rachel Campos-Duffy, in a clip from their YouTube series about their family’s travels, were seen discussing whether their teen daughter Paloma should apply to Harvard University, in light of the importance of their Catholic faith and the values they’ve instilled in her.“The idea of dropping her off at a place that would undo all of those things makes me worried,” Campos-Duffy says.The pushback was immediate: At the Los Angeles Times, Lorraine Ali called the conversation “truly disturbing.”On CNN, former Biden administration official Meghan Hays said the conversation was “offensive and a little self-righteous.”It appeared to be the first time that leftists had encountered the fact that millions of parents — conservative, moderate and even some rational liberals — worry colleges have become indoctrination factories.But for the rest of us it’s nothing new.Three years ago, when Bethany Mandel and I published our bestselling book “Stolen Youth,” about the leftist indoctrination of children in every facet of their lives, parents would often come up to us, tears in their eyes, telling us how they’d “lost” their children when they went away to college.The kids got to school and were pushed to conform with every leftist idea.Heartbreakingly, many eventually cut off their parents for their wrongthink.So the Duffys are absolutely right to worry.And it’s hardly a new thing: During my own college years in the late 1990s, everyone knew even then that regurgitating leftist ideas would boost your grades in certain classes.I wrote a paper about how the family was an outdated concept — a tripe I never actually believed — and got my A.Now I have teenagers myself, and college is very much on our minds.Like the Duffys, our family talks about which schools are of...