Hasson’s story doesn’t include a comment or explanation from the university or the language guide’s authors. It doesn’t mention any attempt to contact the school or those authors either. It makes no mention at all of the way language can sometimes be both emblematic of and contribute to a problem, and it offers no examples of words most people have stopped using for that reason (“retarded,” “mulatto,” “gimp,” etc.).

And so far there’s been no update. The University of New Hampshire distanced itself from the list Wednesday.

CampusReform.org is no ordinary college publication. It’s wholly funded by the Leadership Institute, a Virginia-based nonprofit that aims to equip and train young conservative activists, journalists and future candidates, Morton Blackwell, a Reagan White House aide and the institute’s founder and president, told me.