Conservative exclusion on campus is virtually as old as conservatism itself. More than 70 years ago, a 25-year-old William F. Buckley Jr. launched his career as a prescient public scholar by exposing the vice-like grip liberalism exerted over academia in “God and Man at Yale.” Since that time, leftist orthodoxy has moved infinitely further Left and become the default ideology of even the most remote regional campuses.
Campus activists have routinely shouted down — even physically assaulted — conservatives with few meaningful repercussions. Now, a small but growing number of universities have recommitted themselves to the principles of free speech and tolerance for conservative views — and are telling incoming freshmen they will find no “safe space” on campus.
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