The poverty of liberalism

While pointing out that the University of California has uninvited Larry Summers to speak and that Stanford’s faculty is upset with the appointment of Don Rumsfeld to the Hoover Institution, Roger Kimball points out that

“..The spectacle of these left-wing academics repudiating men like Larry Summers and Donald Rumsfeld even as they abase themselves scrambling to find excuses for welcoming a fanatic like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the halls of a great American University is disgusting. I think again of Bagehot's observation that "History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it." Are we really willing to let ourselves--our ideals, our way of life--be carelessly traduced by a rancid leftism so enfeebled that it can no longer distinguish between free speech and suicide?”

Clarice Feldman thinks it may have something to do with Gary Sick.