Universities in much of the western world have generally been towards the social left (by most definitions of that term) for a very long time. The thing is, in

Universities in much of the western world have generally been towards the social left (by most definitions of that term) for a very long time. The thing is, in the past, their surrounding societies were largely to the social right - it's only now that societies are catching up that suddenly, universities are "anti free speech". Fact of the matter is that there was never much room for rightist discourse in the first place. Nothing's changed, except that people now see the same stuff as being part of the norm instead of fighting against the norm.