Sleeper, of course, is talking about colleges in general, not just Yale. Speech and open inquiry are alive and well on campus.' Read: it's just a bunch of crazy right-wingers, so discount anything they say. But he manages to get in that we were there for the Buckley Program. Oh, and he also leaves out that as we were leaving, some of us were spit on. I was at that conference, the one progressives tried to shut down, the one Sleeper neglects to mention was a conference on free speech. Resilience” - I know, because I was on campus last fall.' Thousand students of all colors joined a vibrant campus “march of Their first frank conversations about race with minority classmates.'įirst conversation about race? Seriously? Is anything else discussed on campus these days? Identity politics trumps all.  'What the video didn’t show were the hundreds of white students having I urge you to read it yourself to see if you can figure out what the hell he's trying to say. Had I tried to turn this in as a paper in high school, it would have been handed back dismissively with the word 'rewrite' scrawled in red ink. The article, as you will see, is an incoherent mess. “Iĭon’t think anything has damaged Yale’s brand quite like that” video, he What they see as coddled children and weak-kneed administrators.  Johnston and other alumni to cease funding

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