On April 20 I posted about what I called a “simmering, occasionally boiling cauldron of ethnic self-pity, social-justice terrorism, whines about homework, and calls for the abolition of free speech” at the five ultra-elite Claremont Colleges in Southern California. I focused on news accounts about the successful efforts by about 250 Black Lives Matter protesters to block the entrances to an April 6 speech on the campus of one of the five, Claremont McKenna College, by conservative pro-police author Heather Mac Donald, forcing Mac Donald to deliver her address to a nearly empty room. I added: “So far there has been no attempt by college officials to identify the bullying students, much less punish them.”

On April 22 I received an email from Claremont McKenna literature professor Robert Faggen. He wrote: