I really enjoy this excerpt from Tim Urban’s “What’s Our Problem”:
At a time when Penn was probably 3% black, Van Pelt College House … was never less than 20% black because it had a reputation as a place where you could just be an individual and not be a representative of a group. We had the first wave of the gay liberation movement living with Campus Crusade for Christ. We had Maoist revolutionaries. We had New Age Leftists. We had campus Republicans and we had socialist would-be revolutionaries living together. They argued with and offended each other all the time. But freedom is an extraordinary medium, and over time they learned to talk with each other, to understand each other, to humanize their relationships with each other, and even occasionally to change each other’s minds. What a terrible price students are paying now for the idea of comfort.