The latest speaker to be disinvited from a scheduled campus talk is Jason Riley. Riley, who is black, writes for the Wall Street Journal and has at least two books to his name. The most recent one carries the title Please Stop Helping Us. It makes the case that government programs meant to assist minority groups are actually counterproductive.

Apparently, being a black intellectual who disagrees with the “progressive” belief system is too provocative for American college students these days. Or maybe it’s just too provocative for college administrators at Virginia Tech, who recently decided to rescind their invitation to Riley. Peter Wood and Rachelle Peterson have the story here.

The school officials involved ought to be ashamed of themselves, but probably rationalize their decision by thinking they’ve avoided a possible confrontation.