OPINION | Ron DeSantis and Christopher Rufo built their political brands on combating cancel culture and claiming to oppose the repression of free speech. Tell that to a professor at the New College that was dumped after criticizing the school’s takeover.
) moral panic—to the board, which soon after fired the president and installed Republican politician Richard Corcoran as interim president.on campus in late January. It was a tense early episode in the conservative overhaul of the historically progressive school, which left a poor first impression on many in attendance.
Notably, the nonrenewal appears to have contradicted the wishes and efforts of Wallenberg’s academic department. As the professor told The Daily Beast, toward the end of the year, “the head of the division asked if I would be interested in coming back,” since “they needed someone for next year to continue.” .
Beaux Delaune, a New College student who took a U.S. history survey and environmental history course with Wallenberg, attests to this latter point. “To be quite honest, I’m devastated about Wallenberg’s dismissal,” Delaune wrote in an email to The Daily Beast. “He invited conversation in class that I almost never had the chance to engage in anywhere else.”
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