If you’re in need of some hopeful signs that all is not lost in the educational realm, given the blatant politicization of schools and colleges across the land, read this City Journal article by Joshua Katz. Katz, a classics professor, was terminated by Princeton for wrongthink; he wrote about this experience last year for National Review.

Katz writes about Ralston College, a startup in Savannah that’s dedicated to free speech and the study of the humanities. Of the “rebellion” against wokeness in education, he writes that it

should come as no surprise. American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten and her allies have laid waste to our public schools. The top admission-by-examination schools in places like New York City and Virginia are under siege by those who refuse to be happy for the success of the successful. Most fancy private schools have gone full-on woke, and many parochial schools are putting “social justice” above religious education. And then there are the daily reports of craziness at colleges and law schools and medical schools.

Katz observes that “Ralston students are not there to one-up Harvard. By and large, they don’t seem to care about Harvard—at least not Harvard in its current state.” It’s a cheering thought.