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As with most revolutions, the counterculture's call for total freedom quickly turned into a demand for total control.

— Roger Kimball The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America (2000)

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Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself.

The very concept of "ethnocentrism," which is used like a sledge-hammer to disparage the West, is a Western invention.

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education (1990)

That is why the new schools of criticism have acquired a following: they promise to release us from the burden of study by showing that there is nothing after all to learn.

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education (1990)

The institutionalization of the radical ethos in the academy has brought with it not only an increasing politicization of the humanities, but also an increasing ignorance of the humanistic legacy.

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education (1990)

Incidentally, why is it that drug abuse is always described as an 'experiment', as if some important scientific enterprise were at stake instead of hedonistic self-indulgence?

The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America (2000)

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