The problem with higher education isn’t a lack of free speech

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The presidents of three
Ivy League
universities testified before
Congress
last week in a hearing that quickly became a testament to the intellectual and moral rot that has taken hold of their institutions. At least one of the witnesses, Penn’s Liz Magill, has since been forced to resign from her position as the university’s president, and
Harvard
President Claudine Gay appears to be on her way out as well.

Their fault was failing to explain adequately whether antisemitic rhetoric, including an outright call for the genocide of Jews, violates their schools’ conduct codes. Magill, Gay, and MIT’s Sally Kornbluth repeatedly insisted that such rhetoric is “context-dependent” and that the schools’ supposed commitment to the First Amendment and free expression would have to inform any disciplinary action.


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