It's the Brian Lara Show Show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

Now New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg

and your calls, if you're connected to a college,

on the resignation of the University of Pennsylvania President Liz McGill

and other fallout and lessons from the House anti-Semitism hearing last week.

Michelle Goldberg has been writing thoughtful columns about speech and anti-Semitism on campus and elsewhere

since the October 7th attack.

And for years before that, she was a critic of illiberal speech codes enforced by the left, even though her own politics are generally of the

left.

So she grapples with the multi-layered issues of where the line is and should be between

free speech and the effects of free speech on students of

different backgrounds, whether there is a double standard when it comes to

Jewish students, the line between hate speech and political speech, and more.

She's written columns since October with headlines like,

with war in Israel, the cancel culture debate comes full circle.

Ironically, perhaps she wrote before the hearing about a film screening

being canceled by the University of Pennsylvania

because it was about young Jews who had become alienated

from Zionism. U Penn had withdrawn permission for that film to be shown.

Her latest column is called at a hearing on Israel University Presidents

walked into a trap.

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