Comment: ADN is really digging deep to find this drivel.  If he won a Pulitzer Prize, it sure wasn't from intelligent commentary.  His cherry-picking of Hoffer excerpts to support his own skewed premises deliberately avoids the true crux of the book or the author's actual views.  His concept is to, not only allow absolute lies, but to promote such in educational institutions.  In today's vocabulary, Alt-Right must be included in the place of truth.  Just as the whole complex of media has been compromised by decades of no actual truth exists.  Both sides of any issue devolve into only the most blatantly false premise hogging the headlines and content.  It is called brainwashing to negate the search for any truth existing in the universe.  Calling for "diversity of thought in the professoriate" is Newspeak for let the liars in to wash the brains of the students for suitable adaptation to fascist thought and subjugation.  Just one of the worst columns ever written.