But the rebellions that followed on multiple campuses for many years were transmogrified into many other things — banning military presence on campus, authorizing separate black organizations, firing administrators, and establishing racial quotas and preferences in admissions. In the process campuses were transformed into leftist enclaves in the larger society, with “tenured radicals†reshaping faculty in their own image, black and Hispanic groups self-isolating into mono-racial cliques, and speech codes enacted to punish anyone who dissented from campus orthodoxy. Scholarship in many areas has been profoundly weakened and trivialized — a huge loss to society. That’s the atmosphere highlighted in...