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Woodrow Wilson and the Campus Taliban | The American Spectator

By Daniel J. Flynn – 11.27.15

The progressives devour their own.

The march of history moves so swiftly that yesterday’s progressive hero inevitably becomes today’s reactionary villain.

Progressives delighted when Woodrow Wilson took the reins at Princeton University. The first non-clergyman to lead the Ivy League school, Wilson further secularized an institution founded on religious principles and nudged a college imparting broad knowledge into more of a university of
specialized instruction. But the Virginia-born political scientist also held uncouth racial opinions, which inspires the Campus Taliban to ready their sandblasters to remove his name off Princeton’s gothic buildings.

When do the sins of the Goths coax the wrecking ball to the New Jersey campus’s arresting architecture?

The New York Times calls America’s 28th president “an unapologetic racist whose administration rolled back the gains that African-Americans achieved just after the Civil War, purged black workers from influential jobs and transformed the government into an instrument of white supremacy.”

The editorialists are not wrong, just late. ...

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