Awful conflicts often expose awful hypocrisies. For years, “progressive” professors have sowed fear on campuses by equating speech with violence, enforcing speech codes, and pursuing microaggressions. Now, as protests spread, they want universities to respect free speech. (1/2)

University students have every right to protest what they find undesirable, harmful, or unjust. Whether you agree is immaterial. If you don’t like their message, write a counter-message or organize a counter-protest. What’s not allowed is violence in any form or incitement to…

In panic mode, high-profile universities are making poor decisions that aggravate the very tensions they are trying to defuse. Has the USC administration made its commencement safer? Probably not. By canceling speech, it has raised the chances of disruptive protests. (Clip: WSJ)

It’s not just Columbia that needs a “reset.” US universities must return to their core mission of education. They must recommit themselves to institutional neutrality, restore academic freedoms, and start enforcing rules consistently across groups and causes. (Clips: NYT)

Three universities—Columbia, USC, and now Yale—find themselves in quagmires rooted in their unprincipled and shortsighted embrace of identity politics. The drama now centers around the rights of Jewish and pro-Palestinian students. Both groups feel let down, even discriminated…