Hart Nat Hentoff David Horowitz Arianna Huffington Marianne Jennings Michael Kelly Mort Kondracke Ch.
Conservatives have a hard time on most college campuses.
The point of departure is nearly always abortion, and anyone who admits to thinking that abortion is a complicated issue is regarded as a heretic and a beast, like a skeptic of the doctrine of the virgin birth at a seminary in Rome. But the campus contempt for conservatives, or for anyone who questions the feminist dogma, goes beyond abortion. When, for example, I explain that as a cultural conservative I want to preserve the roots of a successful society, which requires that we acknowledge the differences between men and women, the fierce defenders of dogma usually drag out the college catalog, with its list of courses in women's studies, and demand to know how on earth any sane, good and worthy person could object to any of them. These pamphlets, which usually read like complaints, appeal to emotion over intellect, feelings over thought. There's a rising anger from many of the brighter kids on campus.