The fortunes of the city of Berkeley and the university at the foot of its hills have always been intertwined. Today, UC Berkeley owns more than 400 acres of land in Berkeley and is its largest employer, accounting for nearly one in four jobs. Its students, faculty and alumni 63 Nobel laureates among them have made UC Berkeley into a world-class research institution and bolstered the city's reputation as a bastion of free speech and progressive values.
They came. They saw. They got everything they wanted fist fights, fireworks and flash bangs. On Monday, Turning Point USA brought its traveling roadshow of conspicuous Christian conservatism to its bete noire: UC Berkeley, aka ground zero for anarchism, anti-fascism, antisemitism, atheism, communism, transgenderism, etcetera, etcetera.