Commentary In the past, if you wanted to find a place where radical thoughts were in the air, protest and dissent were in ferment, and innovative ideas traded back and forth, you couldn’t do better than the college campus in 1965, 1975—all the way to the 2010s. The free speech and anti-War movements of the Sixties made their home there, and the LGBTQ crusade (though it began off-campus) was consolidated into Gender Theory and Queer Theory by academics who gave the activists an intellectual sheen they never would have developed on their own. Today’s Critical Race Theory, too, goes back to the law schools and “studies” programs, while the conversion of public schools into factories of progressivism is standard dogma in schools of education that certify teachers (Paolo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” is still one of the most often assigned texts in ed school courses). All of them challenged …
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