Yes, Cornell students are trained to be good communists. That word is not used, but the students are trained to believe that life will be easy as soon as they overthrow “the system.” And on a deeper level, they are trained with the carrots and sticks of communism. Carrots are the free stuff you get if you submit to its demands, and sticks are the punishments imposed if you resist. Pablo Escobar called it “silver or lead” (“plata o plomo”)— either accept rewards or get shot. Cornell students get rewards when they submit to the ideological orthodoxy. They get good grades, social acceptance, and entrée to the prestige jobs that ideologues control. If they resist campus “activists,” they get bullying that quickly escalates. The threat of social ostracism is usually enough to persuade people to submit and accept the goodies. As a result, totalitarians can take over an institution with …