Who Frog Marches Whom? October 29th, 2025. Introduction. There have been some interesting doings back

there on the East Coast. My friend Nick Solheim gave a speech to the Boston College Republicans.

Apparently someone in the upper reaches of authority there knew which leverage to pull,

and so the chapter president subsequently denounced Nick's speech. And then they invited a Democratic

legislator to address them the following week in order to demonstrate how flexible in the joints they were.

A big part of Nick's address was exhorting his listeners to be prepared to die for what they believed

because the opposition was certainly prepared to kill for what they believed. There were other

important things that were said, but that was the gist. That was the takeaway. This seemed way too strident

for those who want to believe that we are all just liberal Democrats in this Montessori

kindergarten of ours. While important differences remain, we are all committed to playing well with

others as well as not running with scissors. The only problem with this is that,

as the recent pattern of violence attests, it is simply not true. We are looking at actual arson,

actual riots, actual shootings, and most importantly, actual gaslighting. It is an approach that

has been tried before. The people answered and said, Thou hast a devil, who goeth about to kill thee, John 720.

If you would like to read Nick's speech, you can find it here. But then the National College Republicans

appalled at the treatment Nick had received, grabbed the Boston chapter where the pants hang loose,

and frog march them to the curb. So the question before the house is this, whose perspective is being suppressed?

Was it Nix when his speech was repudiated by his host? Or was that the local chapter when their

perspective was escorted gently but firmly down the front steps into the street? Another item of

interest. There is, of course, a student newspaper at Harvard, the Crimson, but there's another one,

a conservative alternative called The Salient. The students running the salient, if their board

of directors were another ship, have passed them by and are now off the starboard bow.

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