I doubt monarchy ever had much appeal to academics/intellectuals.
Before the Enlightenment, maybe. IIRC, many European monarchs became patrons of academic associations like the UK's Royal Society in a somewhat successful attempt to earn their support. That era where you needed the monarchy to sponsor your academic pursuits ended when the monarchies failed to exert control over the unregulated environment of intellectual networking found in the coffeehouses. In China and Japan, up until the 20th century, everyone agreed on the need for an imperial family and limited political change to levels below the emperor, so that could be a more recent instance of monarchist intellectuals.
On the thread topic, evidently, those whining about "leftist indoctrination" have never taken a college history class. The content is taught from a center-right liberal perspective, not from the left. All the standard anti-communist rhetoric is there.
