Bill Buckley had just graduated from Yale. His first book pointed out how Yale has failed its undergraduates, specifically in their religious teaching and overall focus. According to Buckley, he said by some as an effrontery or even a protofascist thought.
His point was that since Yale was a religiously affiliated university, it ought to support a belief in God. Still, instead, they went out of their way to teach that Government was the answer to everything, and their focus included collectivism, atheism, and agnosticism. Yale accomplished this focus by choice of classes, textbook use, and instructor bias.
The book was a bold statement accompanied by the names of instructors and examples. It was his first book and significantly influenced Buckley, becoming well known for his religious views and as a spokesman for conservative views.
