Ron Unz writes about a mysterious little force that is upending everything in American society, as currently evidenced at American colleges. For those with limited time or reading skills, don’t neglect the AI Summary feature on the essay.

Now six decades later, that same political force has metastasized to such an extent that it largely controls both of America’s major political parties and nearly all the members of Congress, and may now be on the verge of successfully eliminating our traditional constitutional rights, including freedom of political speech. When university students are snatched off city streets by masked federal agents merely for writing an op-ed in their campus newspapers, matters have clearly reached a very perilous state in American society.

Again, if it comes to it, and I’m trying to be helpful, I’d like to be deported straight to Moscow.