In New English Review, Dalrymple takes up the case of Nigel Biggar, the Oxford theologian whose measured defence of the British Empire brought down upon him a campaign of denunciation and professional sabotage.
A relatively small number of ideological fanatics or monomaniacs has managed to institute something approaching a reign of terror in universities, and since people do not like to consider themselves to be terrified, because then they feel that they are cowards, they persuade themselves that what terrifies them is actually true or the truth.