Can the Right Make a Long Countermarch Through the Institutions? | RealClearEducation

Is the Right commencing a long countermarch through the institutions, including the very one the academy from which the Left s own long march began? 

Judging by the distress shown by some in the educational establishment, and like-minded corporate media, regarding higher-education reform efforts in North Carolina and Florida, one might get the impression that the countermarch is not only underway but rapidly advancing threatening progressives stranglehold over schools and virtually every other American power center. 

Recent efforts to promote genuine intellectual diversity at UNC-Chapel Hill and New College of Florida, spurred by Republican leaders and those to whom they have delegated power, can be seen as both modest and revolutionary.

On the one hand, looked at in isolation, such initiatives aim to alter the status quo within a mere two schools albeit, at New College, to a dramatically greater degree.

On the other, they reflect a newfound willingness among state officials and their appointees to intervene on behalf of their constituents to shape state schools in ways that challenge the Woke, progressive, ideological monoculture that prevails within them and broadly over the academy and which subsequently has come to pervade American life.

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I’d say the answer to the headline’s question is a definite “maybe”. I suspect colleges and universities in some states, such as Florida and Texas, will somehow or other, perhaps by establishing independent units within universities (more money!), become more welcoming to non-woke (even based) academics and students. But it may take a while before this has much impact. Like decades. In the meantime, we should try not to become a dystopian, CCP-inspired, termite-style society. That would be bad.