![]() So I just started knocking it around in my head. There was security there that kept them out, but when the thing was over, I and everyone else walked out through this phalanx of shouting students, and that’s when I began to wonder – college is getting so crazy, why hasn’t anybody sort of given this the Tom Wolfe treatment? The satirical wit treatment? Because it’s pretty ripe for it. ![]() And 200 protesters, students, showed up and tried to physically shut the conference down, having skipped irony class that day probably to show up and protest. I had never been a novelist, but about three years ago I went to a free-speech conference at Yale – mind you, it wasn’t sponsored by Yale, they wouldn’t sponsor such a thing – but it was held there, sponsored by the William F. The College Fix recently interviewed Johnston by phone. In his humorous new novel Campusland, author Scott Johnston weaves a tale that wickedly skewers progressive university politics, administrators and social justice warriors.Ī former Yale student and adjunct professor, Johnston’s fictional-but-not-really book adeptly satirizes diversity bureaucracies, Title IX trials, and all forms of political correctness. ![]() The College Fix on Facebook The College Fix on Twitter The College Fix on Reddit The College Fix on Parler Share on Email ![]()
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