That’s how the city of Madison, WI, is often described. As a Cheese State native and full-time Badger fan, it pains me to know that UW is such a haven for extremism, as David French notes below. In 1970, anti-war radical Karlton Armstrong bombed a University building, killing physicist and father of three Robert Fassnacht. Armstrong served only 7 years of his 23 year sentence and now owns a popular restaurant in Madison called the Radical Rye. Sadly he had to close down the bar upstairs called Che’s Lounge due to low profits. Such a dedicated Marxist.

“Armstrong’s as opposed to war today as he was back then, but instead of bombs he makes fruit smoothies,” says one Madison newspaper. If you live in a culture that accepts a man like that, Professor Barrett’s outrageous claims seem mainstream. My little sister will be going to Madison this fall for her first year of college. To stem the brainwashing she’s bound to go through, we’re exchanging books on a monthly basis. To start, I will be reading the first Harry Potter book, and she has been given The Party of Death.