It’s bad enough in this country, where aging nostalgics for 1968 still dominate the universities and the media. But in Germany, their influence is even more profound:
The consequences of their subsequent Long March through the institutions have gone far to define the country ever since … In varying degrees, the universities were collectivized and stripped of their traditions … The worst was in the city-state of Bremen, where students demanded full equality with instructors and insisted on collective, rather than individual, examinations. Twenty would produce one joint thesis. It became so bad that local industries would not take interns from that university because they lacked both knowledge and the will to work … Since the early 1970s, they [the 68ers] have from that perch become vigorous culture-brokers and image-makers, running public radio and television and glossy magazines such as Der Stern and Der Spiegel – all of them with a sharp left-wing bias. Of course, they are to some extent balanced by newspapers such as the venerable Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung … But these cannot fully offset the constant barrage of anti-American, anti-Western, anti-Christian and anti-traditional innuendoes, sniggers and assertions to which the German television viewers have been subjected for decades.
And we wonder why Germany is imploding in a miasma of anti-Western resentment and socio-economic stagnation? Geitner Simmons has the details on a new piece in the National Interest.
SIGNORILE MAKES SENSE: Yes, it can happen. He makes some decent points in this piece about the AIDS death of Herb Ritts and the new silence surrounding the epidemic.
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