Has Free Speech Gone Too Far?
Welcome Back to 2017
With Trump ahead 10 points in the swing state of Michigan (and ahead generally in polls across the country), and with armies in two wars spilling rivers of civilian blood, and with a full-fledged eviction crisis unhousing millions, and with migrants from South America fleeing the mess caused in part by climate change and decades of bad US foreign policy to congregate by the hundreds of thousands in miserable conditions at our Southern border, which has created a situation that is difficult to deal with humanely, the American media is laser-locked onto the real threat to the American way of life: free speech on college campuses, specifically the big-name expensive ones. Some pre-COVID nostalgia, just in time for the holidays.
Oh, but it’s different this time: almost everyone in the establishment thinks free speech has gone too far, apparently. The New York Times has 24/7 coverage of this issue, as does WaPo, as does WSJ, as does every legacy media outlet patronized and peopled by alumni of Harvard, MIT, and other golden-ticket schools, plus — and this is more important, I think — the aspirational middle still bitter about that rejection letter.
Our political leaders in the House of Representatives are also concerned about dangerous speech on college campuses, to the point where they have even carved out time from their…
