Key Highlights
- A Tufts University professor says the era of peak campus "wokeness" may be fading, arguing that a new crop of students is rejecting performative politics and demanding serious debate in the classroom.
- Eitan Hersh wrote in a Boston Globe op-ed on Thursday that a new "microgeneration" of undergraduates is pushing back against language policing and ideological grandstanding.
- He said the shift presents an opportunity to restore free speech and viewpoint diversity on the nation’s campuses."In this emerging microgeneration, our brightest students do not want to be the illiberal, woke caricature.
- It’s cringy and embarrassing," Hersh wrote.
- SCATHING REPORT REVEALS ANTIFA-LINKED ORG PASSING OUT MATERIAL TO K-12 STUDENTS: 'POLITICAL REVOLUTION' Colleges are seeing changes in campus culture as some students move away from performative politics and embrace more traditional classroom discussion and open debate.
