5/31/2023 0 Comments Campusland by Scott Johnston![]() ![]() But while teaching The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a novel about which he is passionate, he gets caught in the buzzsaw of phony charges of racism. Russell is up for tenure and his odds seem good. ![]() It’s about Ephraim Russell, a young assistant professor of American literature who teaches at fictitious Devon University, a small elite private university with a multi-billion-dollar endowment. Yet the novel is first-rate and, although it’s humorous, it’s more profound than that. It’s true that he has written books on beer drinking and golf betting games, but that doesn’t seem like a straightforward way to become a first-rate novel writer. He worked at Salomon, opened some nightclubs in New York, and founded two tech start-ups. Nothing in Johnston’s resume suggests that he would have done a good job. ![]() campuses in the last few years, we were due for such a novel that incisively makes fun of wokeness. With all the wokeness and intimidation happening on U.S. Usually people’s first novels aren’t good, but Johnston’s is a gem. And Scott Johnston, author of Campusland, a novel published in 2019, understands that. Rule number four is “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” That rule is relevant for fighting wokeness on campus. Alinsky’s handbook for left-wing activists, Alinsky gives thirteen rules for community organizers. ![]()
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