I’ve been teaching entrepreneurship for more than 25 years. My degrees in English and law and my lifelong love of politics have provided a different perspective and a distinct pedagogy. I want students to understand the contributions entrepreneurship has made to American prosperity and the political structures that have made entrepreneurship possible.
Unfortunately, that’s not what’s typically taught. The standard way of approaching the subject matter is teaching students about innovation and how to start and run businesses.
That isn’t enough.
For years, I’ve tried to make educators and administrators understand that we have been ignoring the single biggest threat to entrepreneurship, and that is the support for socialism that is being taught on our campuses and is spreading among the population.
They don’t get it.
For example, when I was asked in 2005 to create a cross-campus minor in entrepreneurship at the University of Illinois, I argued for