If some of the changes happening in this article are true, it is well past time.  The 60s were a divisive time in this nation's history and while some truly great things happened, most notably civil rights legislation, the extremism of the left and its Marxist underpinnings poisoned a generation of academics.  Its no irony that the article itself refers to Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind.  That was an excellent work that highlighted the intense myopia encased in intellectual utopianism that was the curse of that entire era.

I believe in questioning.  That is the philosophical way towards understanding.  But the left turned something inherently non-dogmatic into its own dogmatism when ultimate relativism was embraced as the one true thing.  I do not believe the left ever escaped that paradox, nor did they escape the naive view of human perfectability.  They embraced a "social consciousness" and notion of "progress" that took us where? 

There are harsh realities that the left refuses to acknowledge under the misguided belief that tolerance is ipso facto good.  Simply put, it is not always good.  Certainly ruthless intolerance and racism (the very things the left wanted to combat) should be pushed back against.  Yet, what they never acknowledged is that there are some things that can't be tolerated for a cohesive society to remain intact.  In their efforts to emancipate man from all forms of bondage, both real and those imagined, they also, unwittingly sought to destroy the only bonds that keep communities together.  They sought to replace tradition, family, and faith with enlightened ideals that fail to connect to the spirit of man. 

For all of those failures in thinking they wrought, it is hopeful that we can return a bit more to tradition, family, and faith.  We needn't go into a timewarp and go back to days of intolerance, but we most assuredly need to jettison the dangerous delusions of a utopia that knows not the truth of man.