When there is no basis for what we agree on, it becomes imperative that we agree. The very fragility of change as a principle makes us hold on to it with insistence and tenacity. Having nothing to conform to, we conform to conformism- hence political correctness. Political correctness makes a moral principle of opposing, and excluding, those of us who believe in principles that do not change. This is the atmosphere—somehow both thin and stifling—of the New Harvard.