Faculty ranks have been flooded with narrow-minded “progressives” who are eager to turn students in ideological replicas of themselves. They’re people suffused with leftist groupthink. It’s nice to come across one who is completely different.

In today’s Martin Center article, I write about Erec Smith, a professor of rhetoric at York College in Pennsylvania. He is black and disdains the “woke” agenda, believing that he empowers his students by teaching them to think for themselves.

He speaks out against the many academics who seek to “cancel” him and other critics of critical race theory. Writes Smith, “We hear endlessly about systemic racism, white supremacy, the black/white income gap, and police brutality. So powerful an ideology has this narrative become that those of us who pose a credible counter-narrative—black anti-woke writers, for example—frequently find our words being misconstrued in an effort to stanch their impact.”

Smith has also begun a journal called Free Black Thought where readers will find the work of black scholars who don’t represent the “approved” black views according to the mainstream media.

Will the intolerant Left come after Erec Smith? So far, no. I suspect that’s because they know that he’d fight back and win.