True Intellectual Diversity Found outside Academia

We can no longer pretend that the ideal of the university as a formalized French salon or English coffeehouse in any way resembles our reality. As the range of acceptable campus discourse progressively shrinks, most higher-education institutions no longer view truth-seeking and persuasion as their primary objectives. Why would they? Such places believe they have already found the truth; get with the program.

Beware, anyone who opposes federally mandating that states treat homosexual and heterosexual relationships identically. Repent, you who say that “All Lives Matter.” Forget that the Left’s patron saint, Bernie Sanders, opposed recognizing gay marriage in Vermont in 2006. Leave aside that he, Hillary Clinton, and Pete Buttigieg, among other left-wing political figures, once declared that all lives mattered. Theirs sins are forgivable; yours are not.

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Aron Ravin

Aron Ravin is a former intern at National Review and a current student at Yale.

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We can no longer pretend that the ideal of the university as a formalized French salon or English coffeehouse in any way resembles our reality. As the range of acceptable campus discourse progressively shrinks, most higher-education institutions no longer view truth-seeking and persuasion as their primary objectives. Why would they? Such places believe they have already found the truth; get with the program.

Beware, anyone who opposes federally mandating that states treat homosexual and heterosexual relationships identically. Repent, you who say that “All Lives Matter.” Forget that the Left’s patron saint, Bernie Sanders, opposed recognizing gay marriage in Vermont in 2006. Leave aside that he, Hillary Clinton, and Pete Buttigieg, among other left-wing political figures, once declared that all lives mattered. Theirs sins are forgivable; yours are not.