Zionist Billionaire Bill Ackman’s Plan to ‘Educate’ America’s Next Elite
Empires, unlike revolutions, don’t have heralds; they work off quiet aggrandizements of power, not bold declarations of freedom. But America’s imperial class appears to have a member who’s missed that memo: the Zionist hedge fund manager William Ackman, a self-selected Patrick Henry of an elite that cannot want one. For the last few years, as his allies have quietly worked to curtail popular politics, Ackman has become a reliable articulator at any given moment of just what game they are actually playing.
In 2023 and 2024, as his allies subtly tried to float alternatives to conservative populism, Ackman endorsed and then unendorsed apparently anti-populist presidential candidates (Jamie Dimon, Vivek Ramaswamy, Dean Phillips, Jamie Dimon again) as if his rolodex depended on it. In 2024 and 2025, as his allies turned their attention to the campuses where students being trained to run Washington’s military-industrial complex were revolting against it, Ackman not only helped lead the rhetorical charge to quash the protests but clarified its underlying logic by explaining that the “real purpose of a university” was to decide “Who is going to manage society?” In 2025, as the New York Zionist financial community planned a response to the rise of the Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, Ackman publicly promised “hundreds of millions of dollars of capital available to back a competitor to Mamdani…(believe me, I am in the text strings and the WhatsApp groups).”
If there is a herald of the moves of the forces of the reaction, it is Ackman—so it was noteworthy when, a month ago, Ackman announced via an article in the news section of The Wall Street Journal that his new project would be acting as the public ambassador for a relatively unknown set of private schools. The Alpha School Network is described as “a fast-growing private school that eschews lessons on diversity, equity and inclusion and uses artificial intelligence to speed-teach children in two hours.” According to the Journal, the school:
“…which calls its teachers ‘guides,’ says it uses AI-enabled software to help students complete core subjects in just two hours daily. It claims students learn twice as much as those in traditional schools…The schedule allows students to do hands-on activities in the afternoon, which the school says help them build life skills. These include 5-mile bike rides ‘without stopping’ for kindergartners, and exploring personal hobbies through AI-generated plans. The school also strives to keep the hot-button social issues that have divided grade schools and colleges across the country out of its classrooms entirely.”
Sixteen Alpha schools are or will soon be operational: three in California, one in Arizona, five in Texas, three in Florida, two in North Carolina, one outside Washington DC, and now one in New York. Gizmodo, the tech website, mentions that the schools’ curricula includes “a variety of workshops, some of which are based around leadership, some of which involve business education.” Gizmodo, which is not known for its focus on the humanities, also mentions a possible problem with this approach:
“History, art, and literature are intrinsically subjective (they require an interpretive lens)…How, exactly, do places like Alpha School teach children about the American novel without letting ‘political, social issues’ get ‘in the way’? From the outside, that part is unclear.”
And, of course, it is not just history, art, and literature where this is a problem. Also out in this model are civics, political theory, ethics, and philosophy—all of those subjects conceived as critical by the founders of this country and until fairly recently by those who governed it for the purposes of educating a citizenry capable of maintaining our freedoms. As one critic of the Alpha Network, speaking to The New York Times, said to this point, “If you think of the purpose of schools as to prepare people for the roles of citizenship…there’s lot of places where you aren’t trying to get kids to race as fast as they can.” Even purportedly positive testimonies from students at Alpha schools about how their classroom experiences help them “surpass A.I.’s knowledge base and come up with…unexpected and novel perspectives” support this general concern. According to one sixteen year old rising senior, speaking to The New York Times:
“To be a useful person in the age of A.I., you have to have unique insights that A.I. doesn’t really agree with. That’s the real differentiator. We are trying to beat A.I.”
Useful person or no, it seems safe to say that supporters of America First who objected to DEI’s framing of education around systemic oppression did not envision it being replaced by automated learning geared toward justifying human existence. Nonetheless Ackman appears to see opposition to DEI as clearing the field for whatever educational conceit crosses his path—and the fact that this particular conceit, education-on-autopilot, crossed his path is not a coincidence.
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