It used to be accepted wisdom that university students were young, ignorant fools not worth listening to. In fact, we had to pay people to listen to them. That’s what university professors were for. But then wisdom was replaced by progressiveness that sees all authority as suspect and all subversion of it as virtuous and worthy of coverage on the 6 o’clock news.

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My debut novel is available at TrossPublishing.co.nz. I have had my work published in the Australian Spectator, the New Zealand Herald and several on-line publications. One of the only right-wing people...