Yesterday was a sad day for the University of Virginia. In 1931, Mussolini’s Fascist regime required all 1,200 Italian university professors to swear an oath of allegiance to the King and the Fascist regime.This measure was intended to ensure ideological conformity and suppress dissent in academia.

I am thinking about what we said to King George III in 1776. People thought there was no way these stupid weak colonies could defeat the world’s great power. History repeats itself.

Beautiful. It is a cold Inauguration Day here in more ways than one.