The lazy moralism of liberal college politics

Successful efforts to ostracize Condoleezza Rice, Christine Lagarde, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali show the vacuousness of the college political scene. - Why do today's college students, professors, and administrators hate powerful women?

That's what first came to mind when I read that Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, had withdrawn as commencement speaker at Smith College after protests by students and faculty. Which came about a week after Condoleezza Rice, the first African-American woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state, backed out of receiving an honorary degree...