I’m politically conservative, and I recently earned a bachelor’s degree from Pomona College, one of the country’s most liberal institutions of higher education. I believe every young conservative should consider attending a college like Pomona, where the adversity I faced paid extraordinary dividends.
A shy and insecure freshman, I realized quickly that my political views were unwelcome. One night I copied a quote from Thomas Sowell onto the whiteboard outside my dorm room. In the morning someone had scrawled “BIGOT” across...