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Harvard’s Counter Teach-In, 50 Years Later How a student disruption prefigured the extremism of today’s college campuses Fifty years ago, some friends and I had the audacity to sponsor what we called the “Counter Teach-In: An Alternative View.” It took place at Harvard University on March 26, 1971, and argued in favor of American involvement in the Vietnam War—a position roughly as outrageous then on campus as arguing in universities now that Israel should defeat the Palestinians. Opponents of the war disrupted the event. In doing so, they took the first step toward the cancel cult...

Radical Son:HERE]. Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. In some parallel universe, David Horowitz never left the left. Instead he closed his eyes to the cracks in the Marxist ideal, zipped up his lip about the high crimes of his comrades, and, like them, reaped the rewards of his blind loyalty. He continued to write books that were lauded in the mainstream media; he was profiled glowingly in the New York Times Magazine and got the cover of Time; he won Pulitzer Prizes and National Book Awards; he was offered huge sums to teach at Harvard, Yale, and othe...