Sometimes liberal bias in the classroom is so blatant that you get hit over the head with it. Other times it’s much more subtle.

Stephen Smoot of the YAF blog reports.

When Bias Strikes In the Classroom

The left wing bias of a professor or teacher is sometimes easy to spot. When an economics professor, for example, starts happily lecturing “let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution, the proletarians Student Tweet Pichave nothing to lose but their chains,” he or she just might be a Marxist.

But often a liberal worldview emerges in subtle ways.

This morning, I was talking to my son about his world history class. He said that he had finished the assigned textbook readings on the Roman Republic and Julius Caesar. I commented on how the Founding Fathers feared an American Caesar.

My son responded quizzically, “wasn’t he considered a good guy? Wasn’t he merciful to the poor?”

And there you have it. Liberal bias.

Julius Caesar was not a “good guy” when it came to the traditions of rule of law and liberty in the Roman Republic. He helped to lead civil wars that shredded the body politic of Rome. Julius Caesar’s economic policies followed an emerging practice of ignoring the Roman constitution. If the Senate dared to object, he had the ability to terrify it into submission.

Julius Caesar’s destruction of the Roman constitution paved the way for Caligula, Nero, and a horde of evil emperors unchecked by the bounds of law or government. Whatever he did for the poor and the indebted in Rome, Julius Caesar finished off the annihilation of the laws that protected freedom and restrained rulers.