University of California, Berkeley students march through campus as part of an "open university" strike in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement in Berkeley, Calif, on Nov. 15, 2011. Max Whittaker/Getty Images
It was some time around 2010, I think, that the nature of student protest took a new form. Young activists on campus have been with us for a long time, since the Eisenhower Era when groups started to form. They spoke and behaved quite differently from the current cohort of activists, however. Something decisive has happened to them.
Mark Bauerlein
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Mark Bauerlein is an emeritus professor of English at Emory University. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, the TLS, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
