Working With What We Have

Not long ago, a friend — the same one who lost his job in Academia, in the Northeast last year for being too white, too Christian, too male — was surveying the people we know who are trying, however ineffectively to fight the good culture war and said “The kids are confused, mal-educated, not very well read, but full of fight and vigor. And their hearts are generally in the right place. We’ll be all right. We just have the scrappy band of losers to save the world, and we will save it.” (Whic...