Courage Is the Cure for Political Correctness

Resist the temptation to censor yourself and speak up for your views. No one said the fight against intolerance would be easy.

This might come as some surprise to observers of our campus culture wars, but there was a time, not long ago, when the situation in American higher education was much worse. There a wave of vicious campus activism aimed at silencing heterodox speakers, and it was typically empowered by a comprehensive regime of speech codes that exposed students to formal university discipline for daring to utter dissenting views....