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The Anti-Woke Collegiate Counterrevolution Is Just Beginning - Commentary

Richard K. Vedder, senior fellow at the Independent Institute, distinguished emeritus professor of economics at Ohio University, and author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America, writes:  The first 24 years of the 21st century have been the era of Woke Supremacy in our institutions of higher learning. Universities have downplayed traditional academic standards and expectations while becoming centers for promoting ideologies centered around combatting perceived injustices, especially condemning perceived racist behavior while showing increasing contempt for the post-Enlightenment collegiate ideal of free expression of ideas. 
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