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By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, Oct 18, 2024

Jeffrey Mirus holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Princeton University. A co-founder of Christendom College, he also pioneered Catholic Internet services. He is the founder of Trinity Communications and CatholicCulture.org.

 

I was struck by a column by Liel Leibovitz in the November issue of First Things (Radical Ick) which observes that the ideological posturing of today’s college radicals is far more nihilistic than was the free-love movement of my own collegiate era. There is a difference between demanding free love along with an end to the military-industrial complex and rejecting the reality of the human person (or any reality outside of our own imaginative desires).

But unlike Leibovitz, I am not convinced this shift means the current generation is significantly more evil than the previous one, since so many drifting collegians simply assert their independence by mimicking and exaggerating the peculiarities of the more fashionable professors. And believe me, even college students (who are, after all, relatively clueless) have an instinctive sense of which ideas are fashionable. …

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