Parents writing tuition checks may cling to a hope that the political radicalism of modern academia is largely concentrated in soft majors invented to highlight various grievances. But a new story from one of the world’s best known medical journals confirms that no area of scholarly inquiry is safe.

In a book review published over the weekend by the British medical journal the Lancet, Rhea W. Boyd writes that “as the present historical moment observes a rise in white deaths, the connections between white racial terror and...