The philosophy underpinning of these eruptions have the marks of a kind of religious faith, argued Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics And Religion in an April 1 exchange with Bari Weiss, associate book review editor for the Wall Street Journal.
On every campus the "true believers" of this brand of leftism can be found "who have reoriented their lives around the fight against evil," Haidt observed to Weiss.
Universities have undergone a transformation from "citadel of intellectual freedom into a holy space — where white privilege has replaced original sin, the transgressions of class and race and gender are confessed not to priests but to 'the community,' victim groups are worshiped like gods, and the sinned-against are supplicated with 'safe spaces' and 'trigger warnings,'" Weiss said.
While their numbers may be small, these leftist...