There is an idea floating around college campuses — including here at Harvard — that scholars should be funded only if their work conforms to a particular view of justice. There’s a word for that idea: censorship. And it is just a modern-day form of McCarthyism. [...] This spring, it has been disturbing to see a number of college commencement speakers withdraw, or have their invitations rescinded, after protests from students and — to me, shockingly — from senior faculty and administrators who should know better.
"The former Mayor of New York went on to note," according to the American Interest, "that 96% of the Ivy League faculties contributed to Barack Obama in the last elections. When the crowd began to clap, he continued, 'there was more disagreement among the old Soviet Politburo than there is among Ivy League donors.'"
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