Being a radical these days is tough.
Declare yourself a passionate advocate for transgender rights, and you’re right in line with the policies of the federal government, the U.S. military, many large corporations, and most universities. Go to college and raised a clenched fist in support of critical race theory, and your professors and most of your classmates will smile and pat you on the head. Stand with a mob screeching against the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade, and you’re echoing nearly every major media outlet in the country.
When he was enthralled with the French Revolution, poet William Wordsworth wrote of that event, “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven!” Rebellion comes as naturally to the young as breathing, but how can anyone kick back against the establishment and the zeitgeist when today’s “radicals” are marching in lockstep with so many politicians, corporate executives, media personalities, and university professors?…