1960s radicals traded independent critique for safe university careers.

Evidence

In Jacoby’s narrative of decline, such public intellectuals as Jane Jacobs, Edmund Wilson, Dwight Macdonald, Philip Rahv, C. Wright Mills, and Irving Howe have been replaced by 1960s radicals who have forsaken the role of the independent intellectual for the safe and specialized confines of the university. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2622

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The draft radicalized college students into the New Left — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 691; Student radicalism stemmed from colleges failing to keep their career promises — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 1758