NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY: The Politicization of Libraries. “The librarians seem torn between their desire to show how useful they can be (presumably so they won’t lose public funding) and how disgusted they are by the people who get to vote on that funding.”

It’s weird that as institutions become more vulnerable to technological and market change — as with libraries and universities — they tend to go more, not less, into hard-line lefty politics that alienate much of their base.