The modern U.S. campus shouldn’t be a safe space

These schools have noticed the obvious: When such teams elevate campus harmony to the supreme value, they become civility enforcers, with a chilling effect on speech.

America’s great research universities are ornaments of Western civilization, so their descent into authoritarianism and infantilization matters.

Because conservatives are largely absent from faculties, and conservative students are regarded as a rebarbative presence, many conservatives welcome academia’s marginalization of itself by behavior that invites ridicule. But universities are squandering the cultural patrimony that conservatism exists to conserve.

And what happens on campuses does not stay on campuses. According to the Pew Research Center, American millennials (ages 18 to 34), fresh from academia, “are far more likely than older generations to say the government should be able to prevent people from saying offensive statements about minority groups.”