On March 2, 2017, Charles Murray was a featured speaker at Middlebury College. As readers of this journal know, over the course of the evening student protests against Murray became violent, and professor Allison Stanger was physically assaulted. Stanger, a distinguished professor in the political science department at Middlebury, had offered to co-host Murray during his visit to the college, despite not sharing his conservative political views. She had planned to ask him “hard questions” about the arguments he had made in his famous 1994 book, The Bell Curve. Instead, she and Murray were forced to leave town immediately after the talk. Stanger suffered a concussion at the hands of angry protestors. She had to wear a neck brace and required six months of therapy to restore full functioning.
The incident made national news, and in its aftermath a
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