![]() ![]() There are relevant faculty members in play: the radically left-progressive in general and the distinct-identitied left-progressives in particular, the gender-ambiguous, the personal pronoun militant, the old school old fogey out of touch with today’s times, and the main faculty character, an English professor named Ephraim Russell who is moderately left and quite sane and rational and who is naively about to become the center of a maelstrom of madness not of his own making. (Very few who are, you know, just students.) The protagonists represent key contemporary student demographics at such elite universities: the radically left-progressive students in general, the many distinct left-progressive identity and interest groups in particular (women, LGBQT, African-American, etc.), the vaguely British-accented aristocratic elite (including trust fund babies), the fraternity element. He was two years ahead of me in school as well as a year ahead of me in writing a campus satire.) ![]() The setting is a not-so-fictional university, Devon University, which seems a lot like Yale University, Johnston’s alma mater. ![]()
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