I’ve lost all patience for liberals or conservatives who can’t entertain a thought that doesn’t strictly adhere to the contemporary orthodoxy. It is especially disconcerting within a law school. What an awful thing to imagine a lawyer unwilling to defend a client for similar grievances, or one incapable of knowing how to argue against a position one finds problematic.

On an epistemological level it is even more frightening. We lose knowledge when we refuse to engage ideas, especially when the intellectual elite does the equivalent of sticking their heads in the sand.