‘When I first went to college, I wanted to major in political science and history’

Nicholas James Pell writes:

It seemed a perfect fit for an argumentative young man with strong opinions on wars from Crimean to Seven Years’; I was fascinated by the play of human events and the ideas that made them happen.

But I quickly dropped out, after a howling leftist mob physically chased me through the Student Union into the relative safety of the campus Republican Club’s offices.