Hello, I'm City Journal editor Brian Anderson.

Thanks for joining us for the Ten Blocks podcast featuring urban policy and cultural commentary

with City Journal editors, contributors, and special guests.

During the 1960s, demonstrations, sit-ins, and student occupations were a permanent feature on many American

college campuses. The unrest was perhaps understandable. The United States was embroiled in an

unpopular war in Vietnam, and the culture was undergoing a radical change. The spirit of protest

has been revived on American college campuses in the last few years. Only this time the targets are less well defined.

Murky allegations of systemic racism, unsafe spaces, and microaggression have taken

center stage.

What does it all mean and how did we get here?

In 1968, student protesters at Southern California's Pomona College shut down the Air Force's

efforts to recruit on campus. Future City Journal contributing editor Harry Stein was one of

the ringleaders of the protest, as he describes in his latest feature for the magazine,

how my friends and I wrecked Pomona College. He joins me today to discuss the lasting effects of that era on both the campus culture

at our colleges and universities and on American culture at large.

In addition to his long affiliation with the magazine, Harry is the author of numerous books,

including no matter what they'll call this book racist.

Harry Stein, thanks for joining me on 10 blocks.

My pleasure, Brian.

When did you arrive at Pomona College and what did you find when you first got there?

What kind of place was it at the time?

Well, I came in the fall of 66 and it was a small, very conservative, very quiet campus.

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