Chip Bok's Bokbluster

You know things have come to a head when liberal academics are afraid of their own students. The professoriate may be protected by tenure from firing but not from Title IX lawsuits.

Campus speech codes and government pressure have fostered an atmosphere where students feel they deserve to be protected from scary ideas and facts don’t matter. Not exactly the traditional point of an expensive college education.

Here’s a Chicago Tribune editorial denouncing Northwestern University for its kangaroo court treatment of communications professor Laura Kipnis. And here is Professor Kipnis’s offending article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. On the bright side, David French, in National Review, thinks this could be the beginning of the end of PC culture.