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Defining Free Speech Down on Campus
Universities are supposed to be places where students and faculty can debate politics and other subjects without fear or censure. As the anti-Israel protests spread at Columbia‚ Yale‚ Harvard‚ New York University and elsewhere‚ however‚ progressives are claiming that any restriction on the protesters is a violation of free speech.
That isn’t true‚ and it’s important to understand why. Under its “state action doctrine‚” the Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment applies to...