Populist Politics and the New Campus Culture Wars

The campus culture wars are back. If the debates of the 1980s ended with the demise of Western Civilization courses and the establishment of multiculturalist curricula, the Europeanists are again making their case, but no longer as tenured classics professors. Rather, the new defenders of Western culture are right-wing agitators from off campus who, feeling marginalized in their whiteness, are seeking to reaffirm the centrality of European culture for U.S. identity. In an additional turning of the tables, they have been making their case in the form of a free speech movement that seeks to emphasize how their victimized and

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