https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2005/05/23/only-the-red-know-brooklyn/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usFri, 12 Jun 2026 20:14:07 -0400<![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t resist that low-rent parody of Thomas Wolfe&#8217;s famous short story for my post on the depressing state of affairs at Brooklyn College, one of our nation&#8217;s most esteemed public institutions of higher learning. Of course, I wasn&#8217;t referring to &#8220;red&#8221; as in red state, but &#8220;red&#8221; in the way we used to mean it &#8211; and even that is obviously an exaggeration. What we are dealing with at Brooklyn &#8211; and so many other colleges and universities today &#8211; is an ideological hardening of the arteries so rigid it threatens the ability to think. This naturally creates a &#8220;trickle down&#8221; into our high schools and junior highs, only made worse by the National Association for Teacher Accreditation. Here&#8217;s history professor K. C. Johnson on how this works:]]>Mon, 23 May 2005 06:48:31 -0400<![CDATA[Roger L. Simon]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-l-simon/2005/05/23/only-the-red-know-brooklyn-n208149