I don’t mean to be Pollyanna-ish but the contretemps over the disinvitation of Suzanne Venker at Williams has had some positive effects. The latest is a post on the Williams Alternative site by Steven Miller, faculty head of the campus Phi Beta Kappa chapter. He not only defends the series of “Uncomfortable Learning” lectures but explains why his organization has decided to support future “Uncomfortable Learning” speakers.

He even quotes the Martin Niemoller poem, “First, they came for the Socialists….”