Ramesh — I’m with you on the substance of the law. But Conn Carroll’s argument reinforces the point I try to make in my column today. The feminist drive to regulate sex on campus is driven by a deep-seated desire to use the state to change the culture. It’s simply social engineering. That, in itself, doesn’t make it bad or good. Some social engineering is fine with me. Other kinds are infuriating. But when conservatives engage in, or advocate, social engineering, the Left screams bloody murder about how we’re trying to “impose” our values on others. When the Left takes up social engineering — and is vastly more intrusive and successful at it — they tend to be blind to the hypocrisy. They’re not imposing anything. Crushing conservative opposition isn’t aggression in the culture war, it’s just social justice or some other numbnuttery.

The best definition of “right-wing values” today is simply the refusal to comply with left-wing values.