From the Great Awokening to the Blackening
23rd June 2020
The Sixties were driven in sizable measure by a very large cohort of young, bright Jewish Baby Boomers. A friend who taught at Yale in the 1960s said that the intellectual intensity of the freshman class ratcheted upwards notably from the freshmen of Fall 1964 (George W. Bush’s entering class) to Fall 1965, the first year when there was no quota holding down the percentage of Jews at Yale.
This year is the opposite, with childish lowbrow stupidities running amok, like the middle school idea of capitalizing Black but not white.