The Patriot Post® · Thursday Opinion

Today’s Editors’ Choice

• Rich Lowry: On ObamaCare, Republicans Vastly Over-Promised
• R. Emmett Tyrrell: Campus High Jinks and the First Amendment
• Larry Elder: Parents: Prepare Your College Kids for Left-Wing Campus Bias

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Opinion in Brief

R. Emmett Tyrrell: “Things on campus began to change by the 1970s and 1980s. Then, the students who were radicals in the 1960s began to become junior faculty, and then senior faculty. Along with them came the feminists, the racialists and the lecturers on even more extreme brands of esotery. As a result, if there is an old-fashioned liberal on campus today, that liberal is the campus conservative. The rest are radicals and dispensers of New Age nonsense. The climate on campus now is somewhat an admixture of communist Cuba and kindergarten. One could sense it all coming by reading the radical thinkers whose books were espoused in the 1960s by the New Left students, soon to be junior faculty and now retiring senior faculty after utterly trivializing their institutions. … This mixture of the infantile and the authoritarian is all over college campuses today. Just last month at the ivy-covered Wellesley College, a bull appeared in the student newspaper explaining that ‘hostility may be warranted’ toward those who are ‘given the resources to learn’ yet ‘refuse to adapt their beliefs.’ That sounds like what the North Vietnamese called ‘reeducation camp.’”