As an academic and parent, I read with concern about the president of Bowdoin College and the would-be donor with whom he recently skirmished. Apparently, a friendly golf outing turned sour as philanthropist Thomas Klingenstein expressed his disapproval of the culture of political correctness at Bowdoin that he finds crowds out any geniune “celebration of our common American identity.”

President Barry Mills took Klingenstein to task (anonymously) in his commencement speech, insinuating, according to Klingenstein, that he was racist for raising this concern. Klingenstein was not pleased and commissioned an in-depth report from the National Association of Scholars to assess PC at Bowdoin. [Read more…]