Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

On the same day that noted social scientist Charles Murray -- author most recently of “Coming Apart” – was advised by administrators of Azua Pacfic University that his scheduled appearance had been cancelled, professor Brent Terry at Eastern Connecticut State University  was issuing a fatwa against Republicans in his Creative Writing class. Republicans, said the professor, were “racist, misogynist, money grubbing people” who want to turn the clock back “not to 1955, but to 1855.” Should their political influence increase, the professor advised, “colleges will start closing.” If the ECSU professor is ever dismissed on a charge of advanced stupidity – not likely, so long as he is tefloned in tenure – Mr. Terry easily might find a job with the Internal Revenue Service, the once non-partisan and politically disinterested federal agency that had, during the administration of the recently departed Lois Lerner, prosecuted a war on the Tea Party. At roughly the same time...