A Conservative Magazine Returns to Harvard
Wall Street Journal | Ruth Wisse
Harvard’s Salient gets the spotlight by Harvard professor emerita Ruth Wisse. Focusing on the Salient’s recent issue on feminism, Wisse hails the students as “patient warriors” who use “rational argument, rather than conservative politics narrowly defined and aggressively pursued” and whose “writing is reflective, their spirit affirmative, and their intellectual independence confident.”
The thrust of the piece? “Today’s third-wave gender-equity feminists are misogynists who disparage women’s unique contribution to the species, of which procreation is the most essential.”
Wisse hails the writers as “patient warriors” with the model for a revolution in the academy— “Because ‘conservative revolution’ is a contradiction in terms, the recovery of the academy and the nation cannot happen through student takeovers like those of the 1960s. It will come about like this, through the steady nerve of patient warriors, joined by every student who shares these values or believes in the right to live by them.”
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