American higher education is in the process of surrendering to self-pitying, self-righteous bullies riding the wave of victimology that has obsessed liberal elites ever since the Civil Rights movement protested genuine injustices half a century ago.  The chaos and moral and intellectual bankruptcy that have resulted now seems to have a poster campus: Oberlin College in Ohio. A long and disturbingly fascinating piece in the New Yorker by Nathan Heller, titled “The Big Uneasy,” offers an overview of the turmoil there and conversations with some of Oberlin’s dissatisfied radicals.  Heller acknowledges the leftist domination of Oberlin, calling it “a school whose norms may run a little to the left of Bernie Sanders.” The overall tone of the piece is fairly deadpan, but some of the descriptions of the radicals, many of them self-descriptions of exemplars of the school’s outreach in the name of “diversity,” are...(Read Full Post)