I’ve been reading my friend Ari Mendelson’s fine and compelling new novel: Bias Incident: The World’s Most Politically Incorrect Novel. Link here.It tells the story of a naive young man who goes to college to experience intellectual freedom and who quickly discovers that the academy has long since abandoned even the pretense of free inquiry.
Like all good novels, Mendelson’s has a ring of truth to it. Incidents similar to the ones he describes happen on college campuses all the time. If they do not happen more often, the reason can only be that students have learned that they will be severely punished for deviating from the party line.
