Princeton senior claims campuses' leftward lurch creates generation of conservatives

Princeton University student: Conservatives are being shut down before they can even voice an opinion.

A Princeton University senior sounded off on "The Ingraham Angle" in response to his op-ed in The New York Times saying college campuses lurching leftward have counterintuitively pushed students to the right.

Host Laura Ingraham asked Adam Hoffman about the firestorm his column created, which included a retort from a writer claiming his description of college campuses has "straight-up never been true."

"Is there real free thought and free expression left at Princeton?" she asked.

"I wrote this piece precisely because I don't think so. I disagree with that writer," Hoffman said.

Blair Hall on the campus of Princeton University. (John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"I'm a senior now, and through my four years, I've served in leadership for a number of conservative organizations on-campus, from College Republicans to the Princeton Tory, our conservative journal, and I've observed this trend that I identified in the article where apolitical students are becoming politicized and moved to the right."

Students who arrive at Princeton's campus already ideologically center-right or conservative, by extension, become even more so, he added.

"This is a trend that I've seen accelerate just in the past year-and-a-half."

Ingraham said that following the Carter administration, a "new generation of young Reaganites" formed on Princeton's campus to rebut the extreme progressivism of the 1970s.

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"That's when I was in college, and I wondered whether this would ultimately happen on the college campuses in this country, because when you go