J. P. Donleavy 1926-2017

"I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down."

These days university campuses are, in the words of an Internet wag, "an oasis of totalitarianism in a desert of freedom."  That may be an overstatement, but not that much of one.  The contemporary academic literary world is a political stew that fears dissenting opinion and literary raucousness; a place of myriad micro-aggressions where "trigger warnin…