In January I wrote a piece about how October 7 changed America's free speech culture. www.theatlantic.com/… A lot of new events bearing on that subject have since happened. But what I wrote back then holds up so far.

When campus administrators should call police is an under-theorized question in academia, bc most faculty don't believe "never" is the answer, but are so averse to cops being called on students that they're loath to specify or even ponder the standard they do believe is optimal.

This @jaycaspiankang article adds lots of noteworthy details to the protest at the Berkeley law dean's home www.newyorker.com/ne… Thoughtful throughout, and full of opinionated analysis, some of which I agree with and some of which I disagree with. Recommended!

A legal question about Columbia's decision to call in NYPD to disperse rather than tolerate unlawful encampments: under what fact patterns or circumstances, if any, would continuing to tolerate the occupying activists put the university at greater risk of a Title VI violation?

Liberal academics increasingly see the illiberal excesses of diversity statements in hiring as they are now used. Should they favor reforming DEI statement regimes or abolishing them? Here's why I think *abolish* is clearly the better course: www.theatlantic.com/…