Education
No Placating Student Radicals
In 1905 Russia, the campus Left silenced dissenters and turned universities into revolutionary organizing centers
From historian Richard Pipes’s account of the 1905 Revolution in Russia, a precursor to the 1917 Revolution that overthrew the Tsar and brought Communism to power:
Note well:
Academic work became impossible as institutions of higher learning turned into ‘political clubs’: non-conforming professors and students were subjected to intimidation and harassment.
We have seen this before. We know how this story ends.
