• Student protesters go after Woodrow Wilson: full circle since his administration prosecuted student protesters [1917 NYT clip via John Brewer] Libertarians have been on Wilson’s case all along [Charles Paul Freund in Reason, 2002] It wasn’t just Wilson: the “entire Progressive movement had a terrible record on race.” [Damon Root] “‘We owe nothing to people who are deeply flawed,’ says Princeton student who apparently knows nothing about every important historical figure” [Samantha Harris referencing Daily Princetonian on Wilson, see also Weekly Standard]
• Social-justice careerism and the campus troubles: “This reads less like a manifesto of student [rebels], and more like a particularly aggressive salary negotiation.” [Robert Tracinski, The Federalist]
• More reactions to my Storify piece on the campus demands: John Leo/Minding the Campus, Glenn Reynolds/Instapundit, Jerry Coyne/Why Evolution is True;
• “Suppression of Free Speech in Academia Is Out of Control” [Nat Hentoff/Cato, earlier]
• Yale had compulsory chapel down till the 1920s and at the rate it’s going it’ll have compulsory diversity training in time for the centenary [Isaac Cohen, Yale Daily News]
• Official at Duke: “You can’t be a great scholar and be intolerant. You have to go.” Audience bursts into applause [KC Johnson, Minding the Campus]
• An earlier generation of student protesters rebelled against control by elders, now they ask institutions for more parent-like care [Jeannie Suk, The New Yorker]

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