I greatly admire the writing of John Derbyshire and but for the astuteness of my friend Geoff Hawkins, would have missed this enlightening post from him Thursday at the Corner.

Derbyshire was among those invited to speak to a forum hosted by the Black Law Students Association at Penn. The focus was the book by Prof. Amy Wax Race, Wrongs, and Remedies. Wax argues that America has already done more than enough to “even things up” and we ought to dispense with the apparatus of racial preferences. (I must get the book.) She and Derb were opposed by a couple of profs who just won’t let go of the notion that the U.S. is a horribly racist country that needs “affirmative action” as much as ever. Nothing surprising there. What is surprising is that the moderator of the discussion was so blatantly hostile to Wax and Derb.

Are some professors so completely consumed with ideological zeal that they can’t even moderate a discussion fairly? Evidently so.