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UPenn, San Diego Law Profs Derided As ‘Racist’ And ‘Sexist’ For Saying The 1950s Were Pretty Nice

Emily Zanotti

Two law professors, one from the University of Pennsylvania and one from the University of San Diego, are under fire after publishing an essay in the Philadelphia Inquirer earlier this month bemoaning the breakdown of America’s “bourgeois culture.”

The opinion piece chided Americans for dropping their standards in the last half century or so, aruging that society has paid the price for abandoning things like marriage, family, social structures, community service, and even patriotism. The blueprint laid out for Americans in the post-war era kept the country together, and was, essentially, a roadmap for personal success.

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