The Takeover
Jacobs provides and excellent exposé on the takeover of universities by activists and how it happened… “It is the exodus from the universities that explains what is happening in the larger culture… We are witnessing the invasion of the public square by the campus, an intrusion of academic terms and sensibilities that has leaped the ivy-covered walls aided by social media.”
For the 1960s generation, “We were much more radical than previous American intellectuals. We were the leftists, Maoists, Marxists, Third Worldists, anarchists, and protesters..[yet] we never exited the campus. We settled in. We became graduate students, assistant professors and finally—a few of us—leading figures in academic disciplines.”
Then, “by the late 1990s the rapid expansion of the universities came to a halt, especially in the humanities…We could not place our students. The hordes who took courses in critical pedagogy, insurgent sociology, gender studies, radical anthropology, Marxist cinema theory, and postmodernism could no longer hope for university careers.”
What happened to these potential professors? They “landed jobs as writers or researchers with liberal government agencies, foundations, or NGOs. In all these capacities they brought along the sensibilities and jargon they learned on campus… with ‘diversity” ..exhibit A in the campus invasion of the public square.”
