Score One for the Smart Guys
The institutional vanity and intellectual slovenliness of America’s campus-based intelligentsia have made academia more peripheral to civic life than at any time since the 19th century.
That was just George Will’s opening bit of ridicule for a group of law school professors who couldn’t, in their overweening vanity, understand something that high-school students grasp every day: that there’s a difference between speech an institution condones and speech it must allow.
Thank goodness there are folks who are still capable of reading the Constitution and then applying some basic common sense to what they’ve just read.
Those professors deserved a far less pleasant smackdown than either Will or Chief Justice Roberts gave them. I suppose that’s why both of them make the big money and I’m merely a blogger.
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Category: Political Pontifications
Will leaves you with that felling that Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr. has long ago retired.
It's funny you mention that. I caught Will on "This Week" not that long ago and thought that, slowly but surely, he was sounding more and more like John Houseman in his speech patterns.