But some of them go much further than that: They argue the ideological culture of the university is in fact the ideological culture of America, and that conservatives writ large are in the same position as the academic minority. For this reason, he argues that “the political practices, institutions, and even rhetoric governing the United States have become hostile” and that “the mainline churches, universities, popular culture, and the corporate world are rotten to the core.” In reaction, he writes, conservatives must prepare for a “counterrevolution,” possibly a violent one — writing that “strong people are harder to kill, and more useful generally.” “The most sophisticated activists and intellectuals of the New Left initiated a new strategy, the ‘long march through the institutions,’ which brought their movement out of the streets and into the universities, schools, newsrooms, and bureaucracies,” he writes in his book America’s Cultural Revolution.
Author: Zack Beauchamp
Published at: 2025-05-06 21:33:20
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