"It's Necessary to Stand Up for the Values of Secular Education, Academic Freedom and Rigor, and Intellectual Inquiry Whenever They Face a Threat—Whoever That Threat Comes From"

"I realize I sound like a crotchety old conservative here, but college classrooms should not be 'safe spaces.' They can't be safe spaces. They should be respectful spaces, and professors and students alike should treat each other with consideration, but 'cause no emotional harm' is not, in fact, a value to which academic institutions should aspire, or an ideal they can ever realistically reach—especially when 'this is harmful' has become an easy cudgel to use in order to get one's way."

Jill Filipovic at Slate reacts to the art-history controversy at Hamline University.