{"id":1910964,"date":"2023-04-06T22:12:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T02:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-the-new-right-can-learn-from-the-new-left\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T22:18:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T02:18:13","slug":"what-the-new-right-can-learn-from-the-new-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-the-new-right-can-learn-from-the-new-left\/","title":{"rendered":"What The New Right Can Learn From The New Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhat-the-new-right-can-learn-from-the-new-left%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1910964&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p><em>This article was adapted from a speech the author delivered about his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.encounterbooks.com\/books\/war-american-republic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">book<\/a>, \u201cWar on the American Republic: How Liberalism Became Despotism.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The New Left radicals won.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1803499071\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a724916a834a3cff07765472bc920383 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a724916a834a3cff07765472bc920383\"><\/div>\n<p>They constituted only a minority on college campuses in the 1960s, but their ideas about antiracism, radical feminism, and sexual liberation have become orthodoxy for a state-established priesthood of government offices and commissions, university compliance officers, and corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beginning as a movement that challenged and displaced mid-century liberalism, the New Left has much to teach today\u2019s New Right. Like mid-century liberalism, movement conservatism has ceased to be authoritative in its ethical, moral, and political teachings. Young conservatives would be prudent to assess and borrow from the successful political strategies, though not the political ideals, of the New Left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Utopia<\/h2>\n<p>First, the New Left adopted a utopian political philosophy. Mid-century liberal intellectuals such as Daniel Bell, Seymour Lipset, Raymond Aron, Robert Dahl, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. had proclaimed the \u201cend of ideology\u201d and the \u201cexhaustion of political ideas.\u201d They rejected \u201cabsolutism\u201d in philosophic truths and moral and political systems in exchange for an experimentalist philosophy and scientific \u201crealism\u201d in domestic and foreign policy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schlesinger presented a horseshoe model in which liberalism marked the \u201cvital center\u201d between opposing socialist and fascist dogmas, which meet at the opposite center in totalitarian government. The \u201ccontinual, potential threat to liberalism\u201d was millennialist faith, which \u201coften hides behind a rationalist fa\u00e7ade.\u201d <\/p>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e316fee83a7340906819cf08f2ba90b9 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e316fee83a7340906819cf08f2ba90b9\"><\/div>\n<p>Liberals declared themselves to be the antithesis of mass man and mass movements, and this, they said, was \u201cintolerable for the true believers.\u201d They diagnosed religious faith in order to diffuse its dangers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The thinkers that founded the New Left proclaimed \u201cthe end of the \u2018end of ideology.\u2019\u201d After the death of their own god in socialism, liberal ex-socialists demanded the death of everyone else\u2019s. Moreover, the \u201cend of ideology\u201d was itself an ideology used to defend the status quo of a ruling \u201cpower elite\u201d in the administrative state. As such it was a \u201cslogan of complacency,\u201d and by closing off criticism it was \u201c<em>more<\/em> ideological than its predecessor.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>C. Wright Mills, Herbert Marcuse, and Paul Goodman revived utopianism. Martin Luther King Jr. famously penned, \u201cSo the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be.\u201d Far from \u201cno-where,\u201d utopianism meant a return to questions of the best possible regime that could guide practical political visions. Mills, wrote, \u201cIf there is to be a politics of a New Left, what needs to be analyzed is the <em>structure<\/em> of institutions, the <em>foundation<\/em> of policies.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new political philosophies were successful. In the latter half of the 20th century, existentialism coopted Christian theology, and critical theory, beyond its revolutionary discourse, provided a vision of justice with its concomitant righteous indignation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c7c10f283f9fdd46ded0322cfb5115e0 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c7c10f283f9fdd46ded0322cfb5115e0\"><\/div>\n<p>Every cogent philosophy is followed by schools of thought, and as each affects politics, it builds authoritative systems (no matter how \u201canti-systemic\u201d each claims to be).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The New Left\u2019s positive visions connected theory and action in <em>praxis<\/em>. Mills and Marcuse introduced a personal politics that became the means to craft and mobilize identity groups for political action. In their new theory of the proletariat, white progressives would unite in \u201csolidarity with the wretched of the earth\u201d against the industrial middle class.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adherents completed these systems in Afro-American studies, feminism, critical legal studies, critical race theory, the politics of difference, and LGBT. Each included <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/31\/this-is-your-sign-to-catechize-your-kids-and-yourself\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">its own catechism<\/a> that has become our orthodoxy: systemic and unconscious racism and genderism, consciousness raising, white allyship, and intersectionality.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For example, in 1971 the National Education Association posited: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>All white individuals in our society are racists. Even if a white is totally free from all conscious racial prejudices, he remains a racist, for he receives benefits distributed by a white racist society through its institutions. Our institutional and cultural processes are so arranged as to automatically benefit whites, just because they are white. It is essential for whites to recognize that they receive most of these racist benefits automatically, unconsciously, and unintentionally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Tearing Down Institutions<\/h2>\n<p>Second, the New Left engaged in what Rudi Dutschke and Marcuse called the \u201c<em>long march through the institutions<\/em>: working against the established institutions while working within them.\u201d It built insular identity groups and larger coalitions, such as an interracial movement of the poor and the rainbow coalition, as well as infiltrated existing organizations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Radicals wrested liberals\u2019 Great Society spending to fund the National Welfare Rights Organization, The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, and community action programs. They took over the commissions that implemented the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1972 Education Amendments.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The original CRA allowed neutral scientific tests in hiring, barred racial preferences in hiring, and required that litigants prove an intent to discriminate. Congress denied the understaffed Equal Employment Opportunity Commission both broad rulemaking authority and cease and desist powers. <\/p>\n<p>Chairman Franklin Roosevelt Jr., vice chair Luther Holcomb, executive director Herman Edelsberg, and deputy general counsel Dick Berg thwarted radical interpretations of the CRA. Frustrated with the EEOC as a \u201ctoothless tiger,\u201d progressive commissioners Richard Graham and Aileen Hernandez stepped down to help start the National Organization for Women.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But radicals took over the commission and its staff. Embarrassed by criticisms of the EEOC\u2019s ineffectiveness, Lyndon Johnson appointed Clifford Alexander, who supported an activist agenda. One of the staffers was Timothy Jenkins; calling EEOC policy a failure in 1969, he called for \u201clegal\u201d remedies such as enforced quota hiring, compulsory training programs, and yearly governmental and private requirements for the creation of new jobs. <\/p>\n<p>The EEOC used the voluntary forms it requested from companies to build a statistical case for systemic racism, and progressive federal judges simply adopted the EEOC\u2019s own broadened standards that violated its originating statute, such as \u201cdisparate impact\u201d (1971) and the \u201cfour-fifths rule\u201d (1978).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Congress granted the EEOC enforcement authority in 1972. While the CRA mandated that desegregation \u201cshall not mean assigning children to particular schools to achieve racial balance,\u201d the Office for Civil Rights wrote rules for racial balance anyway, with quotas for proportional representation, and the courts deferred to the agency\u2019s expertise on civil rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Making its way through law schools, the New Left revolutionized administrative law. Activists pushed for new intrusive social regulation in their efforts to check the agencies that had been captured by special interests.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUncle Sam,\u201d said Ralph Nader in 1973, was a \u201cMonopoly Man.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rejecting the liberal concept of a \u201cpublic interest,\u201d the new \u201cpublic interest law\u201d recognized \u201cdistinct interests of various individuals and groups in society.\u201d Society consisted of competing groups, so administration must include competing social interests. Radicals claimed to represent these unorganized and underrepresented groups.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Judges extended legal standing to sue to millions of individuals and groups, including those indirectly or minutely affected by agency actions in areas of health, safety, consumer protection, environment, and racial discrimination.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Using Great Society funding for its own radical programs, the New Left took over educational institutions in both elementary and higher education. In 1974, for example, the Office of Education introduced an \u201cEthnic Heritage Studies Program\u201d with grants of $2.7 million under its Title IX authority.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A growing college student population required tens of thousands of professors and administrators to peddle identity and monitor compliance with the changing federal regulations. The first black studies program began in 1968, with more than 500 more programs by 1971. Women\u2019s studies programs increased from 150 in 1975 to 300 in 1980.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, the radicals took over key political positions in state and federal government, as well as the Democratic Party itself via key changes implemented by the McGovern Commission. They used these positions of power to play to personal politics, secure unequal treatment under the law, and distribute goods to their growing constituency of victim groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Cultural Revolution<\/h2>\n<p>Finally, the New Left effectively promoted cultural revolution. It won the culture war by its influence in popular opinion, media, and the entertainment industry. <\/p>\n<p>Not only did the radicals wield poetry far more successfully, but the vulgarity they encouraged was sanctioned by federal courts. Experts, instead of elected representatives, would determine a work\u2019s literary and artistic value. Obscenity became a null category for almost 10 years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The most important change was achieved by radicals like Herma Hill Kay who used their influence in the American Bar Association to write the model no-fault divorce law, the goal of which was to destroy the patriarchal family.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cultural revolution included movement conservatives, who often pandered to Christians but did not share their faith.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The neoliberals of the late 1970s, both liberals embracing John Rawls\u2019s \u201cTheory of Justice\u201d and free marketers adopting Milton Friedman\u2019s \u201cCapitalism and Freedom,\u201d were libertarians.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friedman called for the legalization of drugs (including heroin) and sex (prostitution, abortion, and homosexuality) as matters of individual choice, meaning the state would no longer support the traditional family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rawls rejected the shaming of permissive \u201csexual relationships\u201d and called for the state to provide equal services for those who could not afford them, meaning the state would intervene to destroy the traditional family.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under no-fault laws, divorce spiked, doubling from 1960 to 1980. Only 11 percent of children born in the 1950s experienced divorce, compared to 50 percent of those born in the 1970s. Illegitimacy skyrocketed, especially among the poor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>A Model for the New Right<\/h2>\n<p>The New Left should be a model for conservative political action. There are similarities in the times.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The old idols of neoconservatism, libertarianism, and performance traditionalism are dead. Libertarians pushed for open borders and cronyism called free trade; neocons supported bloated military budgets to slaughter forgotten youth on the altar of global corporatism; traditionalists peddled agrarian poetry to white upper-class conservatives, teaching the evils of the American nation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, young conservatives have seen the hypocrisy of conservative intellectuals, especially during the Covid-19 lockdowns and George Floyd riots. <\/p>\n<p>The American Enterprise Institute embraced the trans revolution. The Heritage Foundation under Kim James preached systemic racism. The Acton Institute presented the outsourcing of American manufacturers and the demoralization of its populace as a brief hiccup toward global progress. Catholic integralists teach open borders and accuse those who disagree with them of racism.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Straussians who criticized liberal democracy\u2019s concern with bare preservation (as opposed to philosophic courage and friendship) were so overcome by fear for bare preservation that they rushed to teach online classes and veil their faces in terror of sickness. Bereft of empirical analysis or even common sense, they willingly succumbed to mass hysteria to close their classrooms \u2014 to cede the conditions for philosophy itself.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From the same lack of courage, they dilute their great-books programs with identity politics. The president of the Association for Core Texts and Courses confesses, \u201cI suffer from [white privilege] too!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Straussians\u2019 claim to \u201csave the city\u201d by making students apolitical only created bureaucratic placeholders. And now their concessions to identity politics trample their own students\u2019 job prospects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Looking to the New Left, the New Right should embrace both its ruthless criticism and utopianism, not more \u201cend of ideology.\u201d Conserving Americanism, which includes the Christian faith and republican principles that founded the country, has radical implications.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One could hardly read the great books such as Aristotle\u2019s \u201cPolitics\u201d without concluding that our current regime is an oligarchy, or read The Federalist Papers without questioning the legitimacy of our administrative state.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The very category of U.S. citizenship is denied as millions of illegal immigrants stream across an unprotected border, and many are escorted into the interior of the country.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the Covid-19 lockdowns, Americans learned that all their rights as citizens can be removed, not by elected representatives but by unelected bureaucrats claiming emergency powers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rather than equal citizens under the law, Americans have become subjects with unequal privileges and duties based on their assigned identity group. Given this deprivation of rights, mere appeals to the Constitution or to the rule of law that the American power elite long ago dismantled will no longer do.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Any genuine conservatism must be radical, or in the words of Marcuse, it must constitute a \u201ccounterrevolution.\u201d Conservatives should do more than criticize today\u2019s illegitimate regime and leftist ideas; they should envision alternatives.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A conservative political philosophy would be utopian by recognizing that all political systems share in religious sentiment. This includes the natural rights under \u201cthe Laws of Nature and of Nature\u2019s God.\u201d To conserve the American regime would mean first to conserve actual religion \u2014 Christianity as a fighting faith.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And insofar as political philosophy itself requires participation in moral sentiment in order investigate it, it must also address the questions of patriotism and community that it has long disparaged: It would provide a vision of republican governance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Second, conservatives should emulate the New Left by starting their own long march through the institutions. This is quite simple to do \u2014 if one has the political will. The strategy must be the three P\u2019s, the first two being \u201cparity\u201d or \u201cpurge.\u201d The New Right must demand parity in bureaucracy, education, the military, and government contracts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democrats \u2014 liberals and radicals \u2014 dominate American universities (gateways to the halls of power), where so-called underprivileged groups are the most represented and so-called privileged groups are the most underrepresented. <\/p>\n<p>Considering their stated party affiliation, more than 90 percent of professors are Democrats, with college administrators even <em>more<\/em> Democratic. And government-funded support for the Democratic Party is becoming even <em>more<\/em> lopsided: One professor estimates the current ratio in hiring liberal to conservative professors is 50:1.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Republicans who raise money from conservative businessmen but have no incentive to actually win elections, the Democratic Party must win elections in order to pay off its constituents. If academia consists of centrist liberals at best, and Democratic hacks at worst, then Republicans can justly demand their own spoils.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Red state governors and legislatures could mark half the jobs, in both education and bureaucracy, for their own. Looking at blue states as a model, there is no reason why taxpayers in red states like Indiana, Florida, Idaho, South Dakota, or Texas should employ <em>any<\/em> leftists under the farce of academic impartiality. And unlike engineering bridges, social scientists build worthless statistical models that no one heeds, especially not politicians.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, conservatives should not focus on banning ideas like critical race theory (which they themselves can teach), but on changing personnel: firing DEI administrators and hiring conservatives. <\/p>\n<p>Conservative taxpayers pay for these institutions, public spaces, and jobs. They should take them back: city councils, police and sheriff\u2019s departments, school boards (and public schools where salvageable), and library boards. Because personnel is policy, conservatives should demand their own institutions hire from conservative colleges and disparage degrees from universities that are mere luxury brands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives should take a cue from Democrats and begin their own purges. Civil service protections, instead of securing expertise, have been used to secure Democratic Party interests in the bureaucracy, where, in open \u201cresistance\u201d to President Donald Trump, bureaucrats refused to carry out their orders and even lied to the commander-in-chief about troop levels in Syria.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Democrats combed through social media after Jan. 6, 2021, farcically called an \u201cinsurrection,\u201d to punish those who voted for Trump. Under Biden, they implemented vaccine mandates to expel conservatives from the military, universities, and businesses, even while retaining openly racist Democratic partisans.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives should learn this lesson. With a few executive orders, a conservative president and conservative governors could disband the entire taxpayer-funded diversity, equity, and inclusion priesthood as a violation of equal protection under the Constitution. <\/p>\n<p>And even as they remove tenured Democratic bureaucrats, red state legislatures should eliminate the term limits that bind the duration and impede the expertise of their own elected representatives.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The final P is \u201cparallel institutions.\u201d Conservatives should create more institutions of their own, forming alternative systems with their own rules: charter and home-schooling cooperatives, media outlets, homesteads, farmers\u2019 markets, and independent businesses.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Small liberal arts colleges have an example to follow in Larry Arnn\u2019s Hillsdale College, which stands foremost in the fight for freedom of thought where other small liberal arts colleges have conceded moral authority to those who would destroy them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There has been a resurgence in private associations. Able-bodied men, no longer isolated, are returning to republican manliness in a culture of physical fitness and responsible weaponry. They are buying AR-15s and Glock 17s and training with their friends, not with FBI-infiltrated militias or online strangers but with trustworthy lifelong friends to build a community alongside.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rural Christian women are questioning the corporate, cosmopolitan harem, its cats substituting for children, and are once again becoming the centers of their societies. They are challenging the fiction that they are \u201cfree\u201d when corporate servants, and \u201censlaved\u201d when guiding the health and morals of their own children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Finally, and with the help of these parallel institutions, conservatives have already begun their own culture war. Roger Kimball\u2019s Encounter Books publishes radical ideas. Alternative media outlets, and particularly Tucker Carlson, questioned the dogmas at the core of the Covid-19 pandemic \u2014 the likely origins of the virus, the efficacy of masks, the true cost of the deadly lockdowns, the safety of the vaccines. And they questioned the corrupt collusion between the FBI and social media to conceal Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop to interfere with the 2020 presidential election.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lifesite News informs its readers of the commerce in tissue from aborted babies for scientific experimentation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Darren Beattie\u2019s Revolver.News calls the American empire the Globalist American Empire, or GAE, connecting the empire to the character types and habits of the ruling class, both its mannerisms and sexual obsessions. He first exposed the lies of the Jan. 6 \u201cinsurrection\u201d by showing how federal agents had infiltrated and directed the supposed right-wing organizations that mobbed the Capitol.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, a host of New Right social media influencers have torn down the leftist images and replaced them with noble images. <\/p>\n<p>Under this law of fashion, the New Right uses honor and shame to openly mock the misbehavior encouraged by identity politics: the corrosive feminized politics of the longhouse, in which indirect means of confrontation have turned bureaucracy and corporations into ineffective, incompetent tyrannies; black criminality, in which 12 percent of the population constitutes 60 percent of the nation\u2019s known murder offenders; the mental illness and degeneracy that underlies the trans movement; the corrupt oligarchy that uses \u201cdiversity\u201d to legitimize its decadent rule.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the New Right celebrates health \u2014 strong men and beautiful women \u2014 as part of a broader vitalist movement that has taken hold of young men and women across the West. It points out that the leftist Puritanical priesthood is ugly, asexual, and unhealthy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the myth about the New Left, which became prevalent in the 1980s, was that it lost. But its ideas are now taught in almost every school in America. The New Right would do well to learn from the New Left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2ffa90a7912bf67f097485e35e969a66 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2ffa90a7912bf67f097485e35e969a66\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">   Kevin Slack is a professor of politics at Hillsdale College, where he teaches political philosophy and American political thought, including American progressivism, liberalism, and radicalism. His first book, Benjamin Franklin, Natural Right, and the Art of Virtue, was published by the University of Rochester Press. His second book, War on the American Republic: How Liberalism Became Despotism, was published by Encounter Books. Dr. Slack earned his PhD from the University of Dallas in 2009.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/c-wright-mills\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">c. wright mills<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/diversity\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">diversity<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/end-of-ideology\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">end of ideology<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/equity\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">equity<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/feminism\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">feminism<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/herbert-marcuse\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Herbert Marcuse<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/inclusion\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">inclusion<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/lgbtqia\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">LGBTQIA<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/martin-luther-king\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Martin Luther King<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/new-left\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">New Left<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/new-right\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">New Right<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/paul-goodman\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">paul goodman<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/socialism\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">socialism<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was adapted from a speech the author delivered about his book, \u201cWar on the American Republic: How Liberalism Became Despotism.\u201d The New Left radicals won.\u00a0\u00a0 They constituted only a minority on college campuses in the 1960s, but their ideas about antiracism, radical feminism, and sexual liberation have become orthodoxy for a state-established priesthood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":1910965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8231,3691],"class_list":["post-1910964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-learn","tag-left"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1910965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}