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The Conservative Long Game in Higher Ed, Part 7: The Military and the War Effort on Campus

Few issues divide the hard left from the hard right more cleanly than their general views on the military. This was especially true in the context of the Vietnam War. This division fed a number of actions—in terms of vocal and material support—at higher ed institutions by the campus right. It was, to them, a national duty. In Resistance from the Right, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd regularly reinforces the fact that YAF and campus conservatives “characterized stalwart support of the military as patriotic” (p. 91). Beyond, however, a general upholding of troops and the war in Vietnam, the actions of student Read more