Minding The Campus celebrated its public launch yesterday evening here in New York with a cocktail reception featuring Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson. John Leo introduced our project, followed by KC and Stuart’s lively remarks about their excellent new book Until Proven Innocent. Each detailed the lunacy of the Duke case – the professors’ lockstep assumption of guilt, the Group of 88’s repulsive antics, the administration’s easy acquiescence, and the general disregard for due process displayed.
To leave you with something you didn’t know – in conversation afterwards, KC made the interesting point that only two senators made public statements calling for due process in the case – Robert Menendez (Reade Seligman, one of the accused, was a constituent) and Barack Obama.
