Northwestern University professor Laura Kipnis is no right-winger. A self-described feminist who has written extensively for such publications as Harper’s, Slate, Vox, and the New York Times Book Review, her leftist bona fides would not seem to be in question. At least, that was until two years ago, when she wrote for the Chronicle of Higher Education an article titled “Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe.”

As if to prove her thesis that sexual politics on campus have become toxic, a gaggle of students marched on the university president’s office to demand “a swift, official condemnation” of her essay. When that didn’t happen, things turned ugly and thuggish: Her detractors filed Title IX complaints, dragging her into one of the kangaroo courts designed by the campus Kafkas. She detailed the ordeal for the Chronicle, in what may be the essential essay on the wacky, brutal intolerance of the modern university: “My Title IX Inquisition.” Must reading.