Commentary Back in the late-’90s and early-2000s, after the Campus Wars of the late-’80s and early-’90s had subsided, it became clear to conservative veterans of those prior disputes that however much political correctness in higher education had been exposed and denounced, and no matter how securely conservatives were able to draw the majority of ordinary Americans to their side, the faculty and administrators hadn’t slowed their progressive strivings one bit. Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball’s annual coverage of the convention of the Modern Language Association (to take one sparkling example) turned that mammoth gathering of our most brilliant, cutting-edge researchers and teachers into a parade of comic actors who appeared unaware of their comedy, and the reading public, many liberals included, laughed and agreed. But the professors took themselves too seriously to examine their motives, and when they returned to campus there were no Kramers or Kimballs to remind them …
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