The Intolerant World of Campus Liberalism

Some liberals are expressing regret over the oppressive political correctness regimes that liberals have implemented on college campuses and elsewhere.


The liberal activism of her college years was anti-intellectual, "vaguely cultish" and "the darkest chapter of my life," a self-described "queer activist" writing under the pseudonym Aurora Dagny wrote for The McGill Daily in November.

Dagny is among a number of recent liberal voices decrying the current liberal trend of stifling speech.
Writing about her school's new sexual harassment policy last month for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Laura Kipnis, a professor in the department of radio, television, and film at Northwestern University, wrote: "The new codes sweeping American campuses aren't just a striking abridgment of everyone's freedom, they're also intellectually embarrassing. Sexual paranoia reigns; students are trauma cases waiting to happen. If you wanted to produce a pacified, cowering citizenry, this would be the method. And in that sense, we're all the victims."