Commentary It’s a fascinating aspect of our world that intelligent people are nonetheless capable of saying very foolish things. One of my literary ambitions is to publish a collection of the inane idiocies uttered by our intellectual luminaries, the working title of which is, “If You’re So Bright, Why Do You Say Such Stupid Things?“ I have an inside track for my collection. I used to work in universities, where there’s no shortage of examples. Admittedly, most professors are, by training and inclination, careful with their language and, for the most part, measure their words carefully. And all of them read books, write scholarly papers, and have advanced degrees. But a Ph.D. doesn’t inoculate the bearer against the saying of stupid things. I once heard a colleague argue that we should rid our university library of books that advanced “the wrong ideas,” a sociologist claim that Canada had, literally, “no …