Writing in Inside Higher Education, Professor Steven Mintz, University of Texas Austin, offers his thoughts about the outcomes of a recent assignment given to various scholars by The Chronicle of Higher Education, What Every Student Needs to Read Now. Mintz writes: “Surely, the most important recommendation is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. You don’t need to be a historian to recognize that many recent campus protests today have followed the Alinsky playbook.”