How do we explain the increasing radicalization of our country? How do we explain the decided shift left?
How do we explain the increasing radicalization of our country? How do we explain the decided shift left? In 2000, Roger Kimball noted that “The Age of Aquarius did not end when the last electric guitar was unplugged at Woodstock. It lives on in our values, habits, tastes, pleasures, and aspirations. It lives on, especially in our educational and cultural institutions, and in the degraded pop culture that permeates our lives like a corrosive fog. . . . Although sometimes tempted to ignore it, we are living in the aftermath of a momentous social and moral assault.” Kimball’s book was aptly titled The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America . Eight years later, in 2008, Kimball wrote Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education. How far has this corruptive process gone? Christopher Ingraham wrote for the Washington Post in 2016, “If you’ve spent time in a college or university any time in the past quarter-century, you probably aren’t