“The historical pattern is clear: Political interference with the mission of the university has the power to shape the faculty population, influence campus culture, and ruin individual lives.” 

The university classroom is a recurring setting in the theatre of the American reactionary imagination. For those possessed of nightmarish and creative minds, the classroom is a stage upon which catechists whisper into young ears radical notions about sex, radical ideas about race, and radical lies about America. Professors in close proximity to young people. Professors whose morals, ideas, and politics are unknown to parents. Professors who might be charming, charismatic, and convincing. Students—young, impressionable, eager to please—in relative positions of weakness.