Fresh Wind in Illinois

DAVID YOUNG and ROBERT AULER

Although Liberals publicly characterize the upsurge of the Right as the proliferation of subversive groups which either paint swastikas or try to ban books from libraries, what is really causing hypertension in the overextended capillary system of the Establishment is the rise of conservatism in the nation’s colleges. In the past Liberalism looked on the campus as its empire, where it placed its proconsuls, recruited troops for further expansion, and tolerated all shades of opinion from Marx to Samuelson. Initial rebellions in the provinces were documented by M. Stanton Evans in his Revolt on the Campus. The winds of change continue to blow, as evidenced by the hurricane damage suffered by the Liberal installations at the University of Illinois.