
There have been many articles and posts in the last several days on the student mob who prevented Charles Murray from speaking at Middlebury College, the elite Vermont school where tuition runs $61,000 a year. Mr. Murray is a highly distinguished political scientist, sociologist, and author. He is also a Fellow at the influential conservative think tank, American Enterprise Institute. His books enrage many progressives, not the least because they contain reams of data, which make his arguments hard to refute. The extreme left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) condemns Mr. Murray, so we know that he is doing something right. The SPLC calls him a "white nationalist," which is totally nonsensical as Mr. Murray has multi-racial children.
While the Middlebury mob (and many in the Academy) considered themselves doing the public a service by preventing Mr. Murray from speaking, because he represents the alleged fascists in the current Trump administration, the mob of students are the real fascists. Let us dial back 84 years to Nazi Germany where undesirable books were consigned to the flames.