text: My oldest daughter is applying to uni and I’m very worried that, compared to when I graduated in 1982, education has become much narrower and Orwellian.  In the name of ‘inclusion’, the PC police have suppressed honest discussion, debate and disagreement.  Universities have become ‘safe spaces’—safe from intellectual honesty and intellectual rigour.  Words have become twisted:  killing babies in the womb is called ‘choice’ or ‘reproductive health’, any objective critique of sexual behaviour with reference to biology, psychiatry and ethics is called ‘homophobia’, and invitations to rational debate are dismissed as ‘bigotry’.
  Mainstream Catholic colleges, like BC, NDame, and G’town, are Catholic in name only—they’re Catholic in the same way that Harvard is Congregationalist.   If these colleges really wanted to be a voice of clarity  in the wilderness, they would become an oasis of truth in a world where words have lost meaning and free speech is no longer even remembered.