WWW.AGRM.ORG MAY/JUNE 2018 45 R ichard Weaver reminded us 70 years ago in his book of the same name that “ideas have consequences.” The ideas that dominate higher education are bankrupt and the consequences are dire. Universities are no longer interested in pursuing truth; indeed, they often deny that there is such a thing as truth. Instead, they celebrate tolerance, a very limited tolerance as it turns out, as they are intolerant of anyone who disagrees with them. Today, college campuses are bastions of speech codes and ideological conformity. Faculty and students alike are more interested in identifying “trigger warnings” than they are in pursuing truth. We are now seeing the results of that teaching, not only on college campuses, but in our culture, in our laws, and in our political life. The purpose of the university is the pursuit of truth. Yet truth is precisely what is most unwelcome at so many universities today that insist on protecting students from having to encounter it. Ī by Everett Piper