Charles Murray: Protests a ‘Repudiation’ of What Middlebury University Is All About

‘It’s been unreal for the last six months’

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MURRAY: "First place, you’ve got the science and technology majors versus social science/ humanities. That’s way different. And for that matter, Tucker, my daughter went to Middlebury, graduated 2007. She got a great education. She just had to pick her classes very carefully, and it worked. So there’s a danger in this. What happened in Middlebury is not necessarily a nationwide problem. But it is toxic in the sense that the whole notion of a university is that it is a safe space, if I may use that phrase, for intellectual discourse. That is the thing it is supposed to do. Thinking about Middlebury, a lot of the attention came to the mob that was outside where the professor got seriously hurt, and that was very scary. But that wasn't the most important event. The most important event was what went on in that lecture hall. The thing that went on outside, that was thuggery, a criminal felony, and somebody should do jail time for. What went on inside that lecture hall was a repudiation of what the university is all about."

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