There is a lie that is sweeping American higher education — a lie so compelling that it is motivating the systematic violation of constitutional rights, transforming the most intimate of personal relationships, and spawning a parallel “justice” system of amateur kangaroo courts. It’s a lie that the president, the vice president, the Department of Education, key members of the House and Senate, and virtually every significant Left-liberal publication have told. This lie is teaching a generation of young women that they’re victims — dependent on the state (and their university) for protection — and a generation of young men that they’re all potential predators. It’s a lie that’s been debunked time and again — yet keeps being repeated until it once again swallows the truth.
And what is that lie? That campus life is so dangerous for women that one in five of them will be victims of sexual assault before they leave college. In other words, there is a fully 20 percent chance that, between the moment a young woman starts freshman orientation and the moment she walks in the graduation line, she’ll become a victim of one of the worst crimes that can be visited upon the human body. This terrible number is buttressed by other numbers — that only 1 percent of assailants are ever arrested, charged, and convicted; that only 4 percent of victims ever report their attack to police or campus security; and that only between 2 and 8 percent of rape reports are false. In other words, for hundreds of thousands of women, the university experience is a nightmare combination of physical assault, indifferent or hostile administrators, and justice denied.
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