[This piece has been published in Restoring America to highlight how academic freedom and the freedom of speech on college campuses are under attack.]

I have been in the world of higher education for over two decades and have spent well over half that time serving as a professor at one of the nation’s most politically active and progressive liberal arts colleges. As such, I have had the chance to watch ideas and movements take root on our nation’s campuses of higher education and eventually pervade the nation’s socio-political zeitgeist.