"We shouldn’t underestimate the power of great literature to resist the blandishments of Woke coercion."

"We shouldn’t underestimate the power of great literature and a great tradition to resist the blandishments of [so-called] Woke coercion. Identity politics don’t appeal so much to a youth who has imbibed ‘Self-Reliance’ and Walden, works that abhor group dynamics. Read Swift and Orwell and you immediately suspect an idealist who arrives with promises of radical change….Victimology won’t please a mind that admires Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery."

~ English professor Mark Bauerlein, quoted in the article 'A Key Lesson in Education Policy: You Don’t Make Peace with Termites'