© unknownEnglish Library By undermining the Western canon in the 1990s, leftist academics paved the way for today’s ‘woke’ hurricane.
When I finished graduate school at UCLA in 1988, I believed that English sat at the top of the academic heap. The department claimed nearly 1,700 majors; the nonmajor survey courses I taught during the year after I filed my thesis had more than 400 students each; and professors and administrators across the quad were eager to know what this thing called “deconstruction” was.