The American Spectator

Academia gives insufficient due to conservative ideas, an insight that isn’t exactly original, but that I mention here because despite the fact that I’m sympathetic to its premise I think this is the worst opinion piece I’ve ever read.

Admittedly, I am biased — poorly written columns bother me most when their absurdity can be used to discredit arguments I care about. I’d very much like, for example, to persuade fair-minded people that the academy should recommit itself to intellectual diversity, that aspects of the modern curriculum are frivolous, etc.

My cause isn’t helped when a widely read conservative Web site publishes a piece on the subject that begins as follows:

It’s almost unseemly to single out merely one of those clauses for mockery, but I can’t help it: ravishing our virgins? Really? Also, “our” virgins? The mind boggles.