David Brooks

So they're a group from Dartmouth who worked at a magazine called The Dartmouth Review.

And people will know some of them still.

Laura Ingram, Dinesh D'Souza.

There was a guy named Ben Hart.

There was a guy named Greg Foss et al.

And I did not appreciate the distinction.

I thought we were all on the same team.

But there was a distinction.

I think earnest people like me and you, we were pro-conservative.

We had read like Edmund Burke and Isaiah Berlin and Adam Smith.

And we had these earnest ideas.

That was pro-conservative vision of society.

But Dinesh D'Souza and Laura Ingram, they were not pro-conservative.

They were anti-left.

And there was an episode that illustrates for me how they were different from us.

That during the 80s, to protest apartheid, students on a lot of campuses put up shantytowns.

And it was to represent the suffering of Black citizens of South Africa under apartheid.

And one night,

a bunch of the editors of the Dartmouth Review descended on the shantytown protests and with sledgehammers, slammed them down.

And A, I remember being appalled