The 2016-2017 school year isn’t inspiring confidence in higher education’s ability to repair itself.

Writing in The Weekly Standard, Ben Shapiro zeroed in on one instructive (and stunning) case study in academia’s intolerance for viewpoint diversity worth highlighting. In an article published Wednesday, Shapiro told the story of Boise State University professor Scott Yenor, whose conservative writings on transgenderism inspired from students and faculty an all-out character assassination this August.