Here are a couple of facts about Wesleyan University, the elite liberal arts institution in Middletown, Connecticut, that has taken to calling itself “The Independent Ivy.” Tuition, room, and board this year are $30,430. Assuming a student takes four classes a term, that works out to about $3800 per class. An astounding sum, yes, but not out of line with other top-rated schools. What do students get for their nearly $4000 per class? Well, lots of rhetoric about “diversity,” “multiculturalism,” and so on. That goes with the territory. They also get classes like COL 289, an “interdisciplinary” course in the College of Letters called “Pornography: Writing of Prostitutes.” Taught by Hope Weissman, a medievalist who helped establish Wesleyan’s women’s studies program and who has taught at the university for some two decades, the course is one of the new-breed sex classes that have recently infested ...

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