The University of North Carolina has made a reputation for itself for its proclivity to select highly tendentious, politically charged books for its summer reading assignment for incoming students. (Actually, it’s not much of an assignment, since there are no adverse consequences if a student completely ignores the book and discussion session.) In this week’s this week’s Clarion Call, my colleague Jay Schalin writes about the choice they’ve made this year.

It’s just the sort of book you’d expect, insisting on government coercion to remedy a “problem” that is merely an irritation, namely social pressures to go along with the crowd when in public. The author, a gay college professor, calls it “covering” and wants to give legal protection to all expressions of one’s individuality. Why should soon-to-be UNC freshmen spend their time reading this call for more regulation, litigation, and grievance-mongering?