What a remarkable document! I’ve long been puzzled by the establishment reaction to the social ferment of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Powell isn’t wrong about there being a strong anti-US element to it, nor that a great deal of that sentiment originated with left wing academics, but instead of recommending reforms to the system that would make it harder to attack, he proposes that the chamber of commerce appoint a board of textbook censors! This is a full on declaration of intellectual bankruptcy, an admission that they are unable to argue against Marxists. Which seems insane to me given how terribly Marxism was working out at that very moment, compared to capitalism, in basically any axis of human well being you might choose to measure.