We must break the hold of illiberal ideology and return to our collective senses—to stop self-censoring out of fear of the crowd and excusing stupidity in the name of political allyship and to begin defending plurality, humanism, and democracy.
Never let a good crisis go to waste, which in the current crisis means we must use the fact that our universities have shown themselves to be petri dishes swimming with anti-American ideologies, combined with pre-existing trends, to lance this particular cultural boil. Let’s be clear: Academia today is a pack of rabid reds, and …