I have previously written about the “radical chic” in higher education of faculty members who espouse extremist views in departments purged of conservative, libertarian, or moderate voices. While it is virtually impossible to get departments to seriously consider a mainstream conservative or libertarian, schools like Princeton eagerly hire professors such as Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who recently delighted a Chicago audience with an unhinged rant against the United States and the concept of a nation-state.
Bill Ayers and Princeton’s Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor appeared at a July 4th event and denounced the country and its anniversary.
Taylor thrilled the crowd by recounting her disgust that a woman gave her child an American flag at the airport. She credited herself by not instantly burning it, but went on to denounce the country and credited the audience for its “F**k the U.S.” attitude.
Notably, Taylor suggested that only fools rally behind the flag or the notion of a nation-state. She clearly believes not just in open borders but rejects the very concept of borders. She repeatedly declared that “borders kill” and suggested that patriotic people are simply dupes.
Bill Ayers is a former professor and one of the founders of the domestic terrorist organization, the Weather Underground. His wife, Bernardine Dohrn, was also a member of the group, and both were fugitives for several years. Dohrn is also a professor who has taught at Northwestern University School of Law.
Taylor is a Professor in the Department of African-American Studies at Princeton University. She writes for the New Yorker.
In the Chicago event, Taylor called on others to reject “the idea of loving a nation state, which is what patriotism is.” She repeatedly returned to the theme that borders are “deadly” and “borders kill people.” She explained that we have to erase any borders because they are “a tool of death and destruction.”
Furthermore, she emphasized that the very concept of a nation-state should be the “object of political struggle.”
This reflects the level of intellectual rigor in departments like the one at Princeton. Her writings have been honored by the Marguerite Casey Foundation and Group Health Foundation, the Organization of American Historians, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (which gave her a fellowship).
On one level, the erasure of borders could be viewed as the “withering away of the state” espoused by Friedrich Engels and later by Vladimir Lenin. However, it reads more like the jargonistic narrative common in higher education, where radicals espouse such views without serious challenge from their colleagues.
Even European states that once allowed expanded undocumented migration are now struggling to reverse course due to the high social and security costs. However, academics such as Taylor tell students that we can eradicate any nation-states and live without borders. While most people would expect such views to be espoused by raving lunatics on the subway, Princeton made her a chair professor as the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies.
Her writings are celebrated for her combination of socialism and identity politics. The gushing articles even include praise for her use of emojis. (“All those cry-laughing yellow orbs betrayed a critic with a sense of humor.”).
Few colleagues or critics feel comfortable noting that views like the eradication of the nation-state or erasure of borders are little more than unsupported, jargon-saturated tripe. There is no effort to push her on what happens to an economy without borders where the country (or whatever will replace the nation-state) is responsible for supporting millions of immigrants.
When you hear young socialists in the Mamdani Administration (including Mamdani himself) speaking of “seizing the means of production,” it is the result of college classes taught by figures like Taylor, who offer little more than shallow sound bites and slogans. They have been told that socialism is a successful economic model despite its utter failure historically. It is a fable told by the uninformed to the unquestioning: unicorn economics, eagerly embraced like a bedtime story.
The alternative is what I have called the “liberty-enhancing economy” that the Framers embraced. The combination of political and economic freedom made this republic the greatest engine of prosperity and human rights in history. That does not mean that we do not have difficult economic and social problems. However, the suggestion that we should embrace socialism and erase borders is properly viewed as perfectly bonkers … outside of higher education.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
Another advance in Progressive education.
Now they are advocating that Black English be taught as part of California’s multilingual program.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/leftist-group-advocates-addingblack-english-californias-multilingual-education
I would love to see it!
In particular I want to see their Black English vocabulary.
Unless I am mistaken it must contain many colorful variations on “The ‘N’ Word.”
“Now class, i want everyone to say with me…”
“It’s even worse now!” she said- meaning compared to the era of Frederick Douglass. This is ridiculous, honestly, how do the bureaucratic elites find, pick, and promote these cretins?
Sal Sar
The Socialist Threat Is Real
“America will be in serious trouble if Democrats fail to defend their party.”
— Mark Penn, former chief White House pollster and strategic advisor to President Bill Clinton
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-socialist-threat-is-real-7773676e?st=UX8n4y&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“. . . reject ‘the idea of loving a nation state . . .'” “borders kill people.”
She’s an academic hack for globalism — a collectivist, tyrannical movement where a UN or WEF style Council of Elders control every aspect of your life, including how the money is spent that you earn.
I really wish democrats would make up their mind. Do you like nazi rapists or not? I mean your messaging on this is all over the place, first you don’t like nazi’s and rapists at all and make that really clear for several years, then suddenly you love em, now you’re having second thoughts but not about the nazi thing? just the rapey things? I cannot keep up with politics at this point! Can someone tell me what the dems are supposed to stand for? How much nazi rapey stuff is in the future if I vote D? Democrats must be the most confused voters ever.
What they don’t stand for is democracy, that is, government by the people. They have shown their true colors when the Party Politburo overturned the will of the majority of Democrat primary voters who elected Joe Biden to run as the Democrat nominee for president in 2024 and now by likely overturning the will of Maine Democrat voters who have elected Platner to run as the Democrat nominee for Senate in Maine.
All this news of super-angry leftists unhappy about all their losing, to JUST ONE MAN, makes me smile all day long.
I’m starting to think Trump has super-powers, he incapacitates his enemies by overwhelming their emotional control abilities, disabling their brain functioning.
Leftys, he’s only ONE guy, how is it that he is defeating all of you so easily? It must be driving you insane as demonstrated by the childish Anon now posting here. Yes, I’m addressing you anon, because you need to hear this: Trump will be squatting in your head now forever. He controls you in that way. You are helpless. Trump has you in his grip and will not let go even if you screech louder.
Hobbes let us know what a world without states and borders is like: Nature raw in tooth and claw. The tribalism that we politely call Identity Politics seeks to import the politics of the Middle East, the murderous horse rustling of Native Americans and the warlord competitions of 14th century France. I’ll pass.
F**K U Bill Ayers and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor!
Upvote infinity!
The Long March of the Cultural Marxists through all of our institutions, beginning with Academia, has served to render those institutions spiritual, moral, ethical, intellectual, philosophical, ideological and sociocultural wastelands.
Taylor, Ayers et. al. are insurrectionists and should be so treated.
The thing is, if there is no nation state, no United States, then there is no federal government, no federal taxes, no federal subsidies, no federal laws mandating this or that.
Those on the left often do not manage to see the obvious – much less the 2nd and 3rd order effects of their ideas
It is worth remembering that Taylor and Ayers are the types who became the judges with which President Autopen infected our judicial system.
The Republicans bear substantial blame for this destruction. They never fight as hard as the Democrats fight when opposing judicial appointments.
As for Autopen appointments, they are no more valid than a forged Will or contract if President Vegetable took no part in the process. Each of these Autopen appointments should be investigated thoroughly and the ‘judges’ removed if the process were fraudulent at any step.
As for the universities, substantial parts of the most prominent are basically enemy territory; and they admit it.
Taylor proves to be a nappy headed hoe. Literally. Inner city ghetto level obese, too. What do you expect from Princeton, Mr Turley? Academia is a dump.
A mere speck compared to the lumber in Trump’s eye.
Stage-4 TDS on display. Take your meds.
We know who anonymous is.