Academia is probably the largest echo chamber on Earth. On most college campuses, within the vast hallowed halls protected by ivory towers, lies an insular society that shields progressive educators from experiencing the hard facts of the messy outside world.

Behind the marble walls, fellow faculty and malleable students will construct ethereal edifices and buttress them with complementary concoctions. The college community offers its own absolutes of good and bad, up and down, black and white. And woe to anyone who dares dissent.