Letters to the Editor February 1992
Letters
On Orwell, Marxism, and James Baldwin.
Marxism & the young
To the Editors:
I am prompted by your latest example of mind-numbing, stomach-turning academic prose (that of the amazing Professor Drucilla Cornell [“Notes & Comments,” December 1991]) and your quote from Professor Stanley “Piranha” Fish in praise of this tripe, as well as by Bruce Bawer’s wonderfully scathing review of the awful Columbia History of the American Novel, to offer a new analysis of the reasons behind the rise of Marxists in the American academy.
The usual cause cited, by Roger Kimball and others, is true enough: the ascent of Sixties and Seventies radicals to tenured positions. This argument does not take account, however, of the prevalence of Marxists among new professors and graduate students, who of course are the Tenured Radicals of tomorrow. Nor does it take account of the astonishing popularity of these radicals among undergraduates, who...
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