Abstract
Introduction to the "Radicalizing the Liberal Arts" minicluster.
Highlights
The Leftist excess at small liberal arts colleges (SLACs) has long been a popular topic in conservative and “moderate” politics and journalism, from 1960s reactions against anti-war and various liberation movements to the recent pearl-clutching around “wokeness.” A quick survey of newspaper articles and blog posts toggling between outrage and ridicule, alerting their readers to the dangers of radical SLAC students in the past few decades, reveals a cavalcade of complaints about overreaching institutions and intolerant students
(1) A policy that launched a thousand OpEds, the SOPP was characterized as a symptom of political correctness gone wild, puritanical, and infantilizing
The deluge of alarmist think-pieces, scolding editorials, and belittling comedy routines that responded to the SOPP set the pattern for future reactions to debates over sexual violence, racism, and homophobia on college campuses, especially at SLACs
Summary
The Leftist excess at small liberal arts colleges (SLACs) has long been a popular topic in conservative and “moderate” politics and journalism, from 1960s reactions against anti-war and various liberation movements to the recent pearl-clutching around “wokeness.” A quick survey of newspaper articles and blog posts toggling between outrage and ridicule, alerting their readers to the dangers of radical SLAC students in the past few decades, reveals a cavalcade of complaints about overreaching institutions and intolerant students. We knew that inside small college classrooms, many faculty worked tirelessly to explore, question, and deconstruct racism and power in intimate, discursive settings.
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