The Chronicle of Higher Education

The American Campus, Under Siege

March 06, 2018

Campuses have become targets of the political right, attacked both by fringe groups and by mainstream Republicans. Instances of white-supremacist propaganda appearing at colleges more than tripled in the year after the 2016 presidential election. Less extreme right-wing forces, from state lawmakers to the U.S. Justice Department, have also taken aim at campuses. At a time when labor unions are weak and Republicans control the federal government and most statehouses and governorships, conservatives have set their sights on the last castles of liberal power.

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