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Conservatives Tag

In November of 2019, students of the conservative Young America's Foundation, along with the College Republicans and Turning Point USA, exhibited at a table on campus, when they suddenly found themselves surrounded by an angry mob. The exhibit was happening in anticipation of a campus talk by economist Art Laffer, an event which was disrupted by another mob.

Adrianna San Marco is a conservative student journalist who has been attending Syracuse University. Back in June, she was fired by the school's student newspaper for writing a piece that suggested institutional racism is a myth. Since then, she has been targeted with threats of violence, even death threats, from fellow students. Her pleas to campus administrators have gone largely ignored, so she has decided not to return in the fall.

If you're a regular reader of Legal Insurrection, you know that we spend plenty of time documenting the politics of higher education. More often than not, we focus on the antics of the left because progressives dominate college campuses. As a fun departure, I recently reached out to a Twitter friend named Eddie Zipperer, who is a conservative and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Georgia Military College. I asked if he would consider doing an interview.

Few have heard of the “eco-Right” -- so-called conservatives who support the Left’s global warming policie -- but it’s arguably the biggest threat to the future of the conservative movement. These groups may call themselves “free market” environmentalists, but they preach the religion of manmade global warming with the same fervor as the left-wing faithful.