The state has no role in this story. This is about a private university firing a private person. "Progressivism arose during the Age of Enlightenment out of th

The state has no role in this story. This is about a private university firing a private person. "Progressivism arose during the Age of Enlightenment out of the belief that civility in Europe was improving due to the application of new empirical knowledge to the governance of society." according to Wikipedia