The panelists represented what the GOP thinks is a norm by excluding male university presidents and choosing east coast institutions. Campus speech remains as contentious as it should in a democracy but the latest version of right-wing discourse as “anti-wokeness” has returned to its authoritarian roots in private capital’s version of ‘political correctness’ in private higher education. They’d love to bring back Reagan’s “bloodbath” in a campus provocation like the ones subsidized by GOP groups in recent years. Gay, Ms. Magill and Sally Kornbluth of M.I.T. [...] Much of the criticism landed heavily on Ms. Magill because of an extended back-and-forth with Representative Stefanik.

Source: New York Times December 08, 2023 11:35 UTC