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    Ten campus novels as op-eds about the dangers of wokeness.

    Jessie Gaynor

    August 31, 2021, 12:45pm

    It’s back-to-school season, which is good news for all the “heterodox thinkers” whose bread and butter is writing about the dangers of campus wokeness run amuck. Of course, in today’s newsletter-dominated media landscape, they might find themselves in need of new campus controversies to keep the subscription numbers up. I present for the approval of the Substack Society: the campus novel, rewritten as anti-wokeness moral panic headline.

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