88 Percent of Students at Two Midwestern Schools Say They ‘Pretended to Be More Liberal’

If the epitaph of higher education is ever written, it may include a reference to the rise of self-censorship that led directly to the death of freedom of thought.

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Self-censorship is the act of intentionally withholding your own expression out of fear or deference to the perceived preferences of the majority. In the ideologically homogeneous atmosphere of American higher education, that means that conservatives feel it necessary to bite their lip, their tongue, and any other body part they can reach in order to survive academically and socially.

This is due almost entirely to the fact that the overwhelming majority of faculty at U.S. colleges and universities are not only liberal, but they’re radical leftists who are using their positions as arbiters of