Paul Krugman: Who is John Galt?. Quotes a Bloomberg News piece about businesses paying universities to teach Ayn Rand:

The charitable arm of BB&T Corp., a banking company, pledged $1 million to the University of North Carolina Charlotte in 2005 and obtained an agreement that Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged would become required reading for students. Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, and Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina, say they also took grants and agreed to teach Rand.

I've never been a fan of requiring schools to teach Animal Farm, which is preferable to Rand's book only on the grounds of its relative brevity. The notion that education is used to brainwash students to support the established order is not new to me. Still, I find this to be shocking evidence of how far the US educational system has shrunk back from any notion of academic integrity. Money changes everything, indeed.