The American political system protects open debate; in universities, debate is shut down and muggers prevail.   

The case of Ayaan Hirsi Ali is but the latest episode in the surrender of liberal education to the commissars of “free speech” on American campuses. 

By revoking its conferral of an honorary degree on the heroic human-rights campaigner Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Jewish university has betrayed its core mission.