In the Mainstream Media, a "Safe Space" Protected from Discomfiting Ideas about Evolution

Judith Shulevitz contributes regular op-eds to the New York Times on "feminism, culture, and science." On Sunday she wrote incisively about a now trending concept on university campuses: the notion of creating "safe spaces," where students are protected from having to hear potentially offensive or distressing intellectual discussions ("In College and Hiding from Scary Ideas").

She's not openly mocking, but you can't mistake her attitude either.

Shulevitz gives as an illustration my own coll...