We have made the cost of conviction so high that capable, principled people retreat from public engagement entirely.

SOMETHING YOU'LL NEVER HEAR FROM A DEM OR A LIB. The university problem is that they are factories of indoctrination, especially in the liberal arts. Real politics requires engagement with difference, the ability to live alongside those you disagree with, the skill of persuasion rather than coercion. Our campuses have replaced politics with theology, and a particularly intolerant theology at that.