Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

There’s a long history of politicians targeting student protesters — and of campus leaders abetting those efforts.

Throughout the 60s and 70s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, courts, and police.

The right has had qualms about universities since the 1930s.

Leaders of the political right learned lessons from the 1960s that still inform the movement today.

The founding and funding of conservative media on college campuses in the 1960s.