Intersectionality Is Not the Problem
Neither the term nor the valuable insights it describes should be ceded to illiberal activists.
Earlier this week, an auditorium of young people at Lewis & Clark Law School was prevented from hearing the ideas of a speaker whom a student organization invited to campus when protesters exercised a heckler’s veto to bring her remarks to a halt. “Most of the students, conservatives & progressives, were civil,” the speaker later declared. “A noisy minority was willing to impose its will on everyone else.”
Because the law students who planned the event were members of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization, and the speaker was Christina Hoff Sommers, a scholar at the free-enterprise-oriented think-tank AEI, the story garnered attention among conservative intellectuals, the most thoughtful of whom
