Australia’s Education Minister Dan Tehan is working on legislation to force our recalcitrant universities to properly tackle free speech on campuses. But it’s one thing to find ways of stopping students throwing tomatoes at a Prime Minister’s car and quite another to take on the current feminist culture which encourages blatant discrimination against men in academic appointments, and censors publications or scholarship which challenge their preferred narrative.  

Across the Western World, universities kowtow to these orthodoxies. Swedish economist Magnus Henrekson is a professor and president of the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm. He recently completed an interesting study which seemed a good contender for publication in one of the leading economics journals.    

It was based on an extremely large and exhaustive data set covering the entire Swedish population, used state of the art econometric techniques and their hypothesis was confirmed, with strong empirical...