A number of factors have incentivized college administrators to consistently acquiesce to a vocal minority of student extremists while paying lip service to free speech.

“We should refuse to allow hateful speakers on campus,” a campus faculty member said.

The statement was met with resounding applause. I mentally prepared for the response to what I was going to say next.

Professors like me can’t stay silent about this extremist moment on campuses

Though the breakdown of civility and intolerance for opposing views are treated as crisis of free speech, they also exhibit a kind of piety that has emerged from a broader cultural battle.

Leftists have had their greatest successes in undermining American values on the nation’s college campuses. Derelict and dishonest college administrators, professors and boards of trustees have given them carte blanche. Let’s look at some of it.

A pro-marriage student group at Georgetown University is in danger of being defunded and barred from campus facilities, after fellow students have petitioned that it be recognized as a “hate group.”

Program embedding conservative thought into CU Boulder continues to thrive

Open letter from Mike Adams to University of Montana president.

A Catholic student group at Georgetown University is now having to defend itself against charges of hate and intolerance for voicing support of traditional marriage.