Welcome to College—Now Please Stop Thinking

By Nick Gillespie. A scandal at Canada’s University of Western Ontario shows just how censored higher education has become. When freshmen first arrived at Canada’s University of Western Ontario a few weeks ago, they were introduced not to cutting-edge research or “the best which has been thought and said” (in Matthew Arnold’s magisterial phrasing), but to a brazen, petty, and all-too-common act of censorship that infantilizes young adults even as it chills free speech and open communication among students and faculty alike. More...