Two Minutes Hate From Barone  Town Hall columnist Michael Barone
has a bee in his bonnet about universities:  I am old enough to
remember when America’s colleges and universities seemed to be
the most open-minded and intellectually rigorous institutions in
our society. Today, something very much like the opposite is
true: America’s colleges and universities have become, and have
been for some decades, the most closed-minded and intellectually
dishonest institutions in our society.  Fox news pundits like
Barone really ought to be more careful describing other
institutions as closed-minded and intellectually dishonest.
With that opening you might expect the ensuing paragraphs to
back up such a serious charge. Instead we get a familiar litany
of incoherent right-wing talking points.  He rants about speech
codes for a few paragraphs. I’m not a big fan of them myself,
and every once in a while, on some college campus or other, you
can find a genuine instance of a speech code run amok. But the
point of such codes