Liberals who hurt own cause

Cathy Young, a contributing editor at Reason magazine, in her Boston Globe column on the controversy regarding University of Wisconsin lecturer Kevin Barrett

No one knows if Barrett's nonsense will persuade any of his students. One thing, however, is clear: His course, and the university's lame defense of it, are a gift to all those who want to malign liberals as America-haters and to portray the academy as a hotbed of left-wing lunacy.

(via WisOpinion)