“others like the young man in the article are predisposed to like and find commonality with other people”
Yes, maybe so. To me, this son sounds like he was born with a ton of intellectual curiosity and the brains to back it up. His environment couldn’t squash that. That this kid wanted to go to NCF for medieval studies in the first place suggests a lot of qualities that his parents didn’t instill. That curiosity led him to a new environment with different values and an exploration of those values.
This story reminds me of the kids who are born dancing. They just have this drive that seems to come from nowhere, and they’re going to end up dancing no matter what. They are often born to other dancers, but you get the same result whether they’re born into military families, professorial families, whatever. This kid was going to be an intellectual, and intellectuals have a hard time staying white nationalists.