One of the things The Free Press has been doing since its inception is documenting and exposing how many of our most important institutions—medicine, the media, the law—are increasingly being captured by an ideology that is hollowing out their core functions.

Today, John Sailer, a fellow at the National Association of Scholars, tells the story of how that's happening at American universities across the country.

You don't have to have ever stepped foot on a college campus to care about the revelations in today's piece. Because as we've seen again and again, what happens on campus doesn't stay there. It's just a preview of what's coming for the rest of us. —BW

In June 2020, Gordon Klein, a longtime accounting lecturer at UCLA, made the news after a student emailed him asking him to grade black students more leniently in the wake of the "unjust murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd."

Klein's response was blunt. It stated in part:

Thanks for your suggestion in your email below that I give black students special treatment, given the tragedy in Minnesota. Do you know the names of the classmates that are black? How can I identify them since we've been having online classes only? Are there any students that may be of mixed parentage, such as half black–half Asian? What do you suggest I do with respect to them? A full concession or just half?