Don’t believe for one moment that the Duke lacrosse rape case is over.

True, it’s certainly over for the ambitious district attorney who spearheaded the case, Mike Nifong, who as of this week was stripped of his title and barred from practicing law ever again.

It could be over for the two exotic dancers, “Precious” and “Honey,” who momentarily created a cause célèbre for Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and much of the Duke faculty, but who have now sunk back into an obscure existence.

The case is definitely over as far as the president of Duke University, Richard Brodhead, is concerned. The school’s administration announced Monday that it had agreed on financial settlements with the three accused students, Collin Finnerty, Reade Seligmann, and David Evans, with the expectation that doing so would dissuade the families of the three boys from suing the pants off Duke, right down to the last dime of its endowment.

But the case is far from closed, according to Nader Baydoun, a trial lawyer who has practiced in Nashville, Tenn., for three decades. As a young man, he received a football scholarship to Duke and, like most proud alumni of the North Carolina school, is a “Dukie” who “bleeds blue.”

Mr. Baydoun has spent the past year analyzing the case and the events surrounding it for his new book, “A Rush to Injustice: How Power, Prejudice, Racism, and Political Correctness Overshadowed Truth and Justice in the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case.” His conclusion is that a gang rape did indeed occur at Duke University during the spring semester of 2006. And it continues — figuratively — to this day.

The victims of this vicious rape? The three boys who were indicted, says Mr. Baydoun. Plus their teammates, coaches, and families. “This atrocity took place in no small part because people like Richard Brodhead caved in to the demands of the loudest and crudest members of his faculty, the rush to judgment brought on by the onslaught of extreme political correctness, and the lack of courage to stand up for the rights of these young men,” he says.

And don’t expect any sort of “trial” to prosecute those responsible for the rape of three innocent lacrosse players. Messrs. Finnerty, Seligmann, and Evans were sold down the river by the very administrators and faculty whose jobs are to look out for their students. The lives of the university administrators move on, but the three boys will forever be associated with the ugly events of last year.

Says Mr. Baydoun: “The Duke administration did not give the boys the benefit of the doubt. They stood back and watched from the sidelines while Nifong dragged them through the mud.”

That political correctness flourishes on the campus of a large American research university comes as no surprise. But what Mr. Baydoun says the Duke case uncovered is that there exists an “extreme political correctness” that is uglier and more pervasive than most can imagine.

But here’s the oddest development of them all: This extreme form of political correctness exhibited by events surrounding the Duke case is so blatant and polarizing that it is collapsing under its own weight.

“I must insist that this situation is not as simple as figuring out if an innocent black woman was terrorized by a bunch of rich white guys. What is becoming quite evident from the facts of this case is that the boys were the ones who were terrorized, and not just by a black exotic dancer who made false allegations against them but by so many factions that it is difficult to keep track of them all,” Mr. Baydoun writes.

This time around, however, the threering circus fizzled. Could it be that America finally has had enough of a seemingly endless stream of Tawana Brawley-style accusations? Perhaps one more image of Al Sharpton, wearing one of his five-button-front suits at a press conference, is more than we as a society will tolerate.

And what about American colleges that once taught the liberal arts? “Liberal” once meant to liberate young minds. Now we see that many tenured faculty members and their cronies in the administration actually take pleasure from lynching young white men every now and then. Just ask Mr. Baydoun.

Thank goodness that most of our college students aren’t buying this rubbish anymore. And to Collin, Reade, and David: Hold your heads up high. The fall you took during the past year could well be what puts an end for good to extreme political correctness on our campuses.

Mr. Akasie contributes to The New York Sun.