Elite colleges are now reaping the consequences of promoting a pedagogy that trashed the postwar ideal of the liberal university.
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The excesses of social protest movements can play into the hands of candidates who promise to restore order.
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Our biggest mistake would be to believe that Trumpism is a historical exception.
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