Reasonable rebuttals to conventional wisdom are important — even if they’re wrong, they force us to consider why we believe what we believe. As someone deeply invested in the cause of campus free speech, I’ve been eager to read recent articles questioning whether conservatives (and other anti-PC champions) have blown the problem out of proportion.

Some actors certainly have, some conservatives do practice selective free speech outrage (which is always maddening). The crazed student activists most often featured in viral videos do usually represent a minority of young people. But as Robby Soave of Reason points out, “what matters is whether their power to enforce their desire for censorship is increasing.”