Today’s students grew up in this different racial conversation. Progress is less about understanding and liking each other and more about smashing structures that others defend.

The second thing that happened was that reason, apparently, ceased to matter. Today’s young people were raised within an educational ideology that taught them that individual reason and emotion were less important than perspectivism — what perspective you bring as a white man, a black woman, a transgender Mexican, or whatever.

The Internet has failed to find me a picture of Howard Beale in a dinner jacket.