Something is amiss in Annapolis, home of the U.S. Naval Academy. A rot growing like kudzu across this bucolic campus is undermining the Naval Academy’s core mission: to prepare young officers to take command at sea.
How else can you explain the academy’s insistence that the Supreme Court’s holding that it is unconstitutional for colleges to use race as a factor in admissions doesn’t apply to the academy, as I wrote about here? At least in that case, the academy could make a straight-faced legal argument in support of racism.
More recently, Annapolis’ apparatchiks were caught inviting a problematic speaker to deliver—by her own account—a partisan speech targeting former President Donald Trump just a few weeks before the Nov. 5 election.
This is a clear violation of the Hatch Act as well as Defense Department regulations meant to keep politics out of…
