This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

I welcome Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution, writing his column in Real Clear Politics

about the esteemed professor and president of Princeton University, Christopher Icegruber,

and decisions he's made these last years that are troublesome to everyone who comes across them now

that the fever has lifted.

What fever, John?

The language fever of these last years. And it begins with

systemic racism. Peter, a very good evening to you. The language systemic racism. It was invented

some time ago. I'm not sure its origins. It's been used popularly these last years, repetitively.

And I confess that it wasn't until I read a recent book by Sean McMeekin, a professor

of Bard College, about communism in its language.

Where did it come from?

It came from Babouf in the 18th century and then Marx in the 19th century and then

Lenin in the 20th. But it fell into disrepair because it didn't work. The economies fell apart.

So they had to come up with a new way to approach the problem of communism. And that was Stalinist

dictatorship. And under was Stalinist dictatorship.

And under Stalin, who was a rudely educated man who read incessantly but was not gifted in any fashion, he decided that he needed enemies, that the five-year plants were failing

and he needed to blame somebody.

They invented language.

And one of them, and I've always liked is Kulok.

A Kulok was some peasant who owned more than three acres, condemned as you're the source

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