Features December 1991
Columbia’s assault on the American novel
On ironies of history.
History has seen few more grotesque ironies. In the past several years—while brave people in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, inspired largely by the example of American freedom and prosperity, have ousted the tyrannical Marxist regimes that enslaved and terrorized them for decades—a corps of Marxist humanities professors have carried off, here at home, a quieter but potentially no less momentous revolution of their own. As a result of this revolution, while Marxism has already expired in most of its former bastions and is in critical condition in many others, it is now flourishing in many of America’s most eminent universities. From Princeton to Stanford, from Amherst to UCLA, undergraduates who take classes with faculty members who call themselves “New Historicists” are being indoctrinated...
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