The Patriot Post® · Reorganizing Higher Ed for Ideological Goals

Jonah Goldberg: “As chronicled by Jessica Gavora (my wife) in her book ‘Tilting the Playing Field,’ feminist activists, with the aid of sympathetic journalists and allies in the judiciary and the federal bureaucracy, have used Title IX as a ‘far-reaching remedial tool,’ in the words of the New York Times, to reorganize higher education to their ideological agenda. They started with women’s sports, but the model remains the same: Interest groups foment outrage, then enlist sympathetic activist journalists who rely on the testimony of deeply invested ‘experts’ while partisan politicians exploit the allegedly systemic problem to advance an ideological agenda and demonize opponents as sexist bigots or rape apologists. The UVA story was the perfect – too perfect it turns out – outrage at the exact moment the Obama administration was pushing new Title IX regulations that would erode the presumption of innocence in rape cases on campus.”