A sampling of Hampshire instructor bios indicates that the students there were being served stale pabulum clotted with buzzwords. One Hampshire prof “explores the lives of marginalized subjects, particularly trans women living and making community in the rural south”, and emphasizes “inclusivity, anti-racism, and the foregrounding of marginalized voices”. Anotherspecializes in “institutionalized racism, social change, and embodied experiences of harm and healing”.
There is little that’s original here, because much of this is now standard fare at major universities and liberal arts colleges. What students don’t seem to be taught is how to question the assumptions of this ideological monoculture. The revolution died at Hampshire, not in an upheaval but in a whimper of conformity and complacency.