President Trump is only the most vulgar and powerful of those willing to say that “ political correctness is killing our country.
than at any other recent period in peacetime in American history.” By the 1990s, it was common knowledge that you could attract a crowd of supporters by attacking political correctness, and in recent years we have seen no end of folks with access to a keyboard or a microphone complaining about PC college students, those “ excellent sheep,” in William Deresiewicz’s memorable phrase. In that same decade, former leftist Sidney Hook whined that “there is less freedom of speech on American campuses today. In the 1980s, Allan Bloom transformed himself from hedonistic mandarin professor to best-selling conservative scold by excoriating students for their addiction to rock music and deafness to the higher pleasures of Straussian contemplation. If you disagree, read 'The Coddling of the American Mind' by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. In the late 1960s, Ronald Reagan built his political career in California on his hostility to the spoiled, un-American dissidents protesting in Berkeley. This is where Gen-Z and their parents are messing up all aspects of our world. Old folks just don’t understand what’s going on with college students, and that makes them feel out of touch, unsympathetic to the young. Coddling of the American Mind In my September 2015 cover article for The Atlantic with Greg Lukianoff, we argued that a new form of vindictive protectiveness is sweeping across American universities, with dire consequences not just for free inquiry but for the students’ own mental health.
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