(Originally posted on The Walrus online edition at thewalrus.ca, 23 Aug. 2017) Right-wing pundits have lately spent a lot of energy bemoaning the quality of today’s universities. They complain about everything from trans-inclusive language in the classroom to testing accommodations for neurodiverse and disabled students to incorporating Indigenous content into curricula. This grousing is part of the larger conservative response to recent civil rights activism, wherein so-called student “snowflakes”—represented as terminology-obsessed, identity-focused, emotionally overwrought busybodies—are derided…