Last week, we saw first-hand that for some legislators, ignorance is bliss. During the Senate Judiciary Committee’s free-speech hearing last week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., remained blissfully unaware as she claimed, “I know of no effort at Berkeley, at the University of California, to stifle student efforts to speech.” I guess the Democratic Party is more out-of-touch than we thought.

This hearing came less than 24 hours after the Supreme Court delivered a unanimous decision protecting all speech, even offensive speech. Yet, on college campuses across the country, students have increasingly begun lashing out against speakers and students groups whose message they deem distressing. The university response often protects these perpetrators by hindering the ability for dissenting opinions to flourish.