“At Berkeley, rational discussion descends into darkness“

from Mark J. Perry and Sean Kennedy’s op-ed in yesterday’s Washington Examiner (“At Berkeley, rational discussion descends into darkness“):

Though mob action and violence on college campuses make headlines, the trend toward peer-to-peer brainwashing is even more nefarious. The “marketplace of ideas” begins to resemble a Venezuelan grocery store — no staples and only low quality, single-sourced rotten “options.” Like state-run economies, physical or intellectual terror is enough to enforce compliance on many of today’s college campuses.