Rise of the Right on the Campus

Rise of the Right on the Campus

A strange quiet has fallen on the American campus. At least as of mid-December: it may all be different by the time this is read. Whether it is a brooding quiet in preparation for the kind of explosion we had last spring, or a new phase signalling an end, perhaps a beginning of the end, for campus activism, no one quite knows. Reports from various colleges indicate that the organizations of the student New Left are in a poor way, though the sentiments upon which they have been able to draw ar...


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