In the last section of his Bureaucracy, Ludwig von Mises laments the loss of the “critical sense” that protected people from authoritarianism (Mises 1944, 108). According to Mises, this was the fault of the bureaucratization of education, which taught students falsehoods, especially in economics (Mises 1944, 82). A prime example was the academic class in the German Empire, which formed an “intellectual bodyguard” (Mises 1944, 82) of the empire’s policies.However, Mises wrote his book in 1944 before bureaucracy dominated American universities. In 1950, students were divided evenly between public and private colleges (Edwards 2000, 130), compared to 77 percent of students going to public universities today. America is undergoing the bureaucratization that Mises warned of. Yet this is not

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