![]() ![]() President Trump is only the most vulgar and powerful of those willing to say that “ political correctness is killing our country. CBT, which has been enormously successful over the last several decades, is largely based on the idea that if you untangle some of the distorted and exaggerated things you tell yourself, you can overcome - or at least mitigate - anxiety and depression. than at any other recent period in peacetime in American history.” By the 1990s, it was common knowledge that you could attract a crowd of supporters by attacking political correctness, and in recent years we have seen no end of folks with access to a keyboard or a microphone complaining about PC college students, those “ excellent sheep,” in William Deresiewicz’s memorable phrase. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure Greg Lukianoff. In that same decade, former leftist Sidney Hook whined that “there is less freedom of speech on American campuses today. ![]() In the 1980s, Allan Bloom transformed himself from hedonistic mandarin professor to best-selling conservative scold by excoriating students for their addiction to rock music and deafness to the higher pleasures of Straussian contemplation. In the late 1960s, Ronald Reagan built his political career in California on his hostility to the spoiled, un-American dissidents protesting in Berkeley. ![]() Old folks just don’t understand what’s going on with college students, and that makes them feel out of touch, unsympathetic to the young. ![]()
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