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This extremist moment on campuses

University history departments have a race problem: The alt Right is appropriating medieval studies and classical scholarship — what can academics do to stop them? Medievalists, recoiling from white supremacy, try to diversify the field. How one white nationalist became — and remains — a thorn in Texas A&M’s side. Administering evil: The neoliberal university has no answer for people like Richard Spencer. Drexel professor George Ciccariello-Maher, whose charged tweets drew fire from the Right, will leave the university. Lucia Martinez Valdivia: Professors like me can’t stay silent about this extremist moment on campuses. The surprising revolt at the most liberal college in the country: Activists are disrupting lectures to protest “white supremacy”, but many students are taking steps to stop them.