In this Pope Center piece we have just released, my colleague Jay Schalin writes about the nasty attack on a Chapel Hill student group, Youth for Western Civilization. Among other slurs, the Left insists that it’s a white-supremacist organization. Once again we see how the Left plays the race card whenever it can’t come up with real arguments.

Last week, I wrote about the risible paper “Manufactured Controversy,” which claims that free speech and the exchange of ideas on campus are at terrible risk from “the far right.” As I said there, mere criticism of trends in higher education is not the same thing as an attack on speech and academic freedom — but the tactics of intimidation on display at Chapel Hill really do constitute an attack on them. I oppose such tactics no matter who employs them. And as far as I’m aware, these days they are employed exclusively by the intolerant authoritarians on the left.