Steve Forbes may not have won the Republican presidential nomination, but the Forbes millions are helping to shape the political culture of Brown University. The Forbes Foundation donated $2 million to Brown’s most Marxist department, Modern Culture and Media. When Tim Forbes announced the donation in 1991, just as I was graduating from Brown, the...

I was delighted in the fall of 1992 to discover a new VJ on MTV, named Kennedy, who declared herself a Republican during her first week on the air under friendly questioning from a fellow VJ. Asked whom she was voting for, she said “Bush/Quayle” with a smile—she was proud not only of the Bush...