George Will explains here why the most liberal/radical college in the nation has gone out of business. Now here is an opportunity to buy the buildings and turn it into a real college.
During
the campus convulsions of the late 1960s, when rebellion against any
authority was considered obedience to every virtue, the film “To Die in
Madrid,” a documentary about the Spanish Civil War, was shown at a
small liberal arts college famous for, and vain about, its dedication
to all things progressive. When the film’s narrator intoned, “The
rebels advanced on Madrid,” the students, who adored rebels and were
innocent of information, cheered. Antioch College in Yellow Springs,
Ohio, had been so busy turning undergraduates into vessels of
liberalism and apostles of social improvement that it had not found
time for the tiresome task of teaching them tedious facts, such as that
the rebels in Spain were Franco’s fascists.
