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Two recent op-eds on speech on campus in America

Both make sensible, albeit different, points, and both are worth a look:  one by the President of Williams College discussing, among other things, the difference between Charles Murray and Milo what's-his-name; and the other by Erwin Chemerinsky (the Dean of Berkeley Law) and Howard Gillman (Chancellor of UC Irvine) on the real threats to faculty speech (and it isn't coming from the delusional children populating certain campuses)

(Thanks to Katherine Franke for flagging the first, Robert McGarvey for pointing out the second.)

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