singing those free-speech campus blues

Alan Dershowitz says Harvard profs are quaking in their boots:

At Harvard, hard-left radicals, led by Professor J. Lorand Matory ’82, claim that they are being muzzled. At last week’s Faculty meeting, Matory alleged that critics of Israel like him “tremble in fear” when they express their views at Harvard. He submitted a motion to resolve that “this Faculty commits itself to fostering civil dialogue in which people with a broad range of perspectives feel safe and are encouraged to express their reasoned and evidence-based ideas.”

Hey, I encourage Matory and his colleagues to express their not-reasoned and evidence-less ideas, too. It’s a free country! The First Amendment is their permit! Meanwhile, the rest of us have rights, too—including the right not to believe even the esteemed professors’ most “reasoned” and “evidence-based” ideas.

Oh, and Dershowitz has some reassuring words too [emphasis in original]:

Freedom of speech to criticize Israel and the U.S. is alive and well at Harvard and most other universities. Matory need not “tremble in fear” of anything except his pernicious opinions being rebutted in the marketplace of ideas.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant—in universities too.