In a recent FoxNews op-ed, Charlie Kirk says American
universities are now 'mob' assembly lines. Kirk is absolutely right that the
kind of leftism that began on campuses has now spread to the whole country,
mostly through Democratic Party politics. This leftist doctrine, among
other things, maintains that unsubstantiated or even obviously false charges
are justified as long as they serve the interests of the supposedly oppressed
and fight the supposed oppressors. I described it two years ago in my
cover article, "The Roots of Campus Leftism,"
for The Weekly Standard.
But
Kirk, in his article (and, as far as I can tell from the book he wrote with
Donald Trump, Jr.) seems to have only one strategy for combating campus
leftism, and that is to encourage isolated and marginalized conservative and
moderate students to be more vocal. This may make them feel a little
better, but they aren't at all likely to be able to outshout the leftists, and
they should be prepared to be vilified by their fellow students and professors,
given poor grades, and possibly even disciplined by their administrators.
That's
why I think they need help from legislators and donors outside campuses, and I
suggest in my book, The University We
Need, the sort of legislation that might help, along with what I
think would help most, the founding of a new university that rejects this
leftist dogma and shows what a university should be.
No comments:
Post a Comment