Measuring the drip of poisonous division from academia

Very interesting.  From Where did the Great Awokening come from? by David Rozado.  I think The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom was the original and perhaps best explanation but Rozado adds some empirical rigor.  

Basically, the jewel of our civilizational crown, our universities, became the fifth column which threatens our great Classical Liberal experiment, the finest achievement of the Age of Enlightenment.

The birth of the Great Awokening is said to be around 2010-2014. The abrupt surge in prejudice-denouncing terms such as racism, sexism and homophobia in the media preceded the political emergence of Donald Trump and has continued since he left office. Further work confirmed similar dynamics in UK and Spanish news media.

More recently, I have investigated the prevalence of the same terms in the academic literature. What I found is that in contrast to news media content, where the number of references to different prejudice types has been fairly flat since the 1970s and then rises sharply post-2010, in academic literature the prominence of prejudice terms has been steadily rising for several decades.

The figure below shows how academic focus on ethnic prejudice has been growing for almost a century through four distinct waves. The first wave occurred right after World War II, the second one after 1968, the third during the so-called “politically correct” 1990s and the fourth wave takes place post-2010. Notice also how after each wave, the base level remains elevated, thus establishing a new normal.

Very revealing throughout.  It took two or three decades for this philosophical illness to take root.  It will take awhile to choke it off.  

It is especially notable that there is one form of ethnic hatred in which academics have displayed little interest over the decades.  It is among the most ancient of prejudices and the one most entrenched in the Left, anti-semitism.  Interest in every other prejudice has sky-rocketed in the past couple of decades and is orders of magnitude greater than interest in anti-semitism.  Perhaps because most academics lean left and the left is the most persistently hospitable to anti-semitism (see Jeremy Corbyn for an extreme example.)