US universities have become arms of the defense industry. This isn’t healthy | Indigo Olivier

Much of our higher education system is a glorified feeder for Lockheed Martin and other defense industry firms

In his 1961 farewell address, Dwight D Eisenhower warned the nation against the unwarranted influence" of the military-industrial complex. But a lesser known part of the speech was addressed to universities: In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity."

We didn't listen.

Indigo Olivier is an investigative reporting fellow at In These Times magazine