College stands by controversial commencement speaker, gives graduates strong final lesson on tolerance

Something rare happened in the world of campus controversies this week— a university handled the dust-up over a controversial speaker perfectly.

Nella Gray Barkley, an alumna of the small, all-female Sweet Briar College in Virginia, used her platform as the school’s commencement speaker last Saturday to make some gentle anti-feminist quips. Inside Higher reported that Barkley’s speech “stunned many attendees, who found it sexist and demeaning to the Me Too movement and feminism.” Lauren Cooley has more in the Washington Examiner here.