On June 12, at long last – fully two decades after President Ronald Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall” speech – a memorial to those who perished under the yoke of Communism was dedicated in Washington, D.C.

It is inscribed as follows: “To the more than 100 million victims of Communism and to those that love liberty”; and “To the freedom and independence of all captive nations and peoples.”

Laurie Morrow, posting at Minding the Campus, calls for the wall of silence and obfuscation about Communism on campuses to be torn down:

The time has…come for university faculty and administrators to expose Marxist ‘thought’ for the evil buncombe it is, rather than allow students to be misled by letting Marxism go unchallenged, out of some false sense of ‘collegiality.’ It is no virtue to enjoy cordial relations with evil. The university is the guardian of Truth, or its enemy.

That the academy is failing to transmit the truth about Marxism was underscored by University of Pennsylvania history professor Alan Charles Kors on June 12th at the Heritage Foundation. “Ask college students, and I have,” he said, “how many Stalin killed and you get the answer, ‘thousands,’” “That’s like saying Hitler killed hundreds of Jews.”