Liberal administrators couldn’t or wouldn’t curb the illiberalism in their midst. By failing to discipline protesters who transgressed university rules, they signaled that disrupting classrooms carried no price. By tolerating professors who bullied students who disagreed with them, they signaled that incivility and even harassment were acceptable forms of discourse…
In the name of rescuing the Jews of Columbia, the Trump administration cut off $400 million in federal contracts and grants to the university…
In some deep sense, the university [has] lost the capacity to reassert control, let alone confront the root causes of the chaos…
In this atmosphere, Columbia seems unlikely to reckon with the deeper causes of anti-Jewish abuse on its campus.