I write quite frequently here about how the tenets of classical western liberalism, particularly freedom of speech and assembly, have been bastardized in the humanities and social sciences of many modern “progressive” universities—and about how the subversion and re-signification of these concepts into their near opposites (free speech is now “free” only when confined to a designated space in the commons, and groups that gather willingly to express certain political

Pass me the melon salad, please.  And—Ooh! good Christ! Is that lime Jell-o!?