FISH DON’T KNOW THEY’RE WET: Academics Are So Lefty They Don’t Even See It, Megan McArdle writes.

How bad is it? “University of Missouri Faculty Declare Support for ‘Muscle,'” Jonathan Last adds:

Note that last bit about freedom of speech and the First Amendment. When the left wants to build “safe spaces” and stamp out “hate speech,” the First Amendment is an outmoded, retrograde element that needs to be bent into submission. Last fall, for instance, Brenda Smith-Lezama, the vice president of Mizzou’s student body, went on MSNBC to defend Click by explaining that, “I personally am tired of hearing that First Amendment rights protect students when they are creating a hostile and unsafe learning environment for myself and for other students here.”

When denying the First Amendment rights of the student journalist Click targeted for muscle didn’t work, the faculty decided to try to wrap the First Amendment around Click herself.

It all sounds like nonsense until you remember this: Free speech, hate speech, whatever. Nobody on the left actually cares about principle here. It’s all about power.

Indeed.™ — or at the very least, attempting to survive the apocalypse.