"Many American pundits seem to firmly believe that the country stands at a precipice in which young, left-wing college students and recent graduates are the leading edge of a rising tide of illiberalism that comes in the form of ‘political correctness’ and poses a clear and present danger to free speech and rational discourse,” Vox co-founder Matthew Yglesias wrote in March 2018. “It is so accepted that there is a growing climate of authoritarianism,” he continued dismissively, “that whether or not individual examples are true is fundamentally irrelevant.” Fast forward to June 2020: “I am going to have to admit I was wrong and the excesses are spreading,” Yglesias wrote this month in a series of now-deleted tweets. “I stand by a lot of my criticisms of the anti-PC discourse of five years ago. But I wrongly thought the most egregious excesses of campus activists would stay on campus when they have instead spread as people age into other roles.” The debate is over about whether there is a campus free speech crisis. There certainly is, and now, it's metastasizing into a national speech crisis. The cancer of campus intolerance is attacking the whole body of the American republic. There could be no more thorough vindication than the societal hysteria of the last three weeks for those of us who have spent years warning against malignant illiberalism, perverse safetyism, and intellectual protectionism being spoon-fed to...