In this Minding the Campus piece, history professor KC Johnson looks at the scandals at the University of North Carolina and Harvard. Both show the power of politically correct thinking. If it protects campus “diversity” to ignore a scandal, then it will be ignored as much as possible. As Johnson writes regarding UNC, where the scandal involved the African, African-American, and Diaspora Studies Department, “If the scandal had affected biology or computer science, rather than a center of campus political correctness, would an apparent attempt to cover up the extent of the wrongdoing have occurred?”