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Liz Magill
December 18, 2023
Michael Bérubé
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Jennifer Ruth
It’s Not the University President’s Job to Police Free Speech
A manufactured controversy forced Elizabeth Magill to resign from Penn and continues to hound Harvard’s Claudine Gay. Here’s how it could have been avoided.
December 11, 2023
Michael Tomasky
Universities Have One Last Chance to Confront Left-Wing Antisemitism
An elite campus problem is one thing. But this issue now threatens to unravel liberalism as it did in 1967 and ’68. That did not end well.
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