Young America’s Foundation (YAF) released its 2026‑27 “Comedy & Tragedy Report,” documenting a selection of college courses that it says illustrate a progressive ideological shift on elite campuses. The report, obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital, lists classes at Ivy League and other top‑ranked schools that examine topics such as Bad Bunny’s cultural influence, Marxist cultural theory, and gender‑focused religious studies.
Course examples from leading universities
At Columbia University, a class titled Religion and Nasty Women references President Trump’s 2016 “nasty woman” remark about Hillary Clinton. The description says the phrase has become a “badge of honor” for women’s empowerment and promises a survey of goddesses, prostitutes and virgins across religious traditions, framed as an exploration of “religious‑based misogyny” and women’s responses.
Columbia also lists Marxism and Cultural Theory, which the catalog notes will not provide an intensive study of Karl Marx himself. Instead, the course examines Marxism as a cultural theory, linking it to global capitalism, financial crises and contemporary social‑justice discourse.
Princeton University offers Thinking with Bad Bunny: the Cultural Politics of Race, Language, and Empire. The class looks at the Puerto Rican star’s music, lyrics, activism, “gender non‑conforming performances” and business strategies, while also discussing Puerto Rico’s colonial context.
Yale University adds Bad Bunny: Musical Aesthetics and Politics, a course that pairs the artist’s work with an examination of Puerto Rico’s history, politics and colonial legacy.
The University of Pennsylvania’s Decolonizing French Food begins with wine, cheese and baguettes before tracing how French culinary traditions have been shaped by colonialism.
Stanford University’s Gender in the Wild explores how gender influences ideas about wilderness, freedom, heroism and risk, drawing on feminist texts, Indigenous knowledge and Black environmental thought.
Swarthmore College lists two courses that focus on gender and theology: Queering God: Feminist and Queer Theology, which asks whether the traditionally masculine depiction of God could be understood as feminine, and The Fat Renaissance, which studies early‑modern English depictions of body size and contemporary attitudes toward bodily regulation.
YAF’s response and cost estimates
YAF President Gov. Scott Walker said higher education has been “hijacked by progressive ideology,” turning campuses into “institutions of indoctrination.” He added that the organization is fighting to restore “intellectual freedom and academic excellence” to America’s colleges.
The report also provides cost estimates for a three‑credit course, citing roughly $5,800 at Princeton and $5,600 at Penn, based on Department of Education tuition data.
Methodology and university reactions
YAF surveyed course catalogs for the 2026‑27 academic year from Ivy League schools, Big Ten, SEC, PAC‑12 and the top ten liberal‑arts colleges according to U.S. News & World Report. The organization notes that the listed courses represent a sample rather than an exhaustive inventory.
Columbia, Princeton, Penn, Stanford and Yale did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
These findings add to an ongoing national conversation about curriculum choices, parental‑rights concerns and the role of faith‑based perspectives in higher education.
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