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Relevant Classic Texts (2) A lot of the supercharged racism uber alles ideology we’re seeing right now under the general banner of “critical race theory” is not new. Most accounts place its origins in the late 1980s or 1990s, but in fact it is possible to make out the essential dynamic back in the 1960s. Harry Jaffa gave a valedictory lecture on the occasion of his retirement from teaching at Claremont McKenna College in 1989, which he called “The Reichstag Is Still Burning: The Failure of Higher Education and the Decline of the West.” (You can find the lecture as Chapter 4 in a recent collection of Jaffa’s essays.) In the lecture Jaffa recalled the agitation to begin a “black studies” program at the Claremont Colleges back in 1969 an agitation that coincided with a campus bombing, an arson, and open threats of violence if the agitators didn’t get their way:

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