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Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Kerouac were all on the side of the savage. That their penny-ante gnosticism was not only perpetuated but mythologized and spread abroad as a gospel of emancipation is something for which we have the Sixties to thank - or to blame.

— 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.

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

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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.

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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.

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