Late last year a friend sent me this post by New Zealand political commentator Matthew Hooton, in which he declares that he’s ‘not one of those who worries the universities have become bastions of postmodernism and enemies of free speech,’ that he personally has ‘never once felt constrained in what I can say,’ and that he preferred the days when ‘the political right used to pride itself on being the intelligent side of politics’ (something Hooton seems to think is inconsistent with criticizing today’s universities).