Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gave a stirring address at West Point’s commmencement. Among the advice he gave to graduates is this:

The hardest thing you may ever be called upon to do is stand alone among your peers and superior officers. To stick your neck out after discussion becomes consensus, and consensus ossifies into groupthink.

Would that all students on today’s PC campuses could absorb this message about the nation’s urgent need for leaders capable of independent and courageous thought.

(Tip: Michael Filozov)