Alt-right provocateur Milo Yanopoulos recently released a list of 20-some speakers for his upcoming free speech week at the University of California, Berkeley.

The four-day event, beginning next Monday, will undoubtedly spark the controversy for which he is known

and which he needs, especially since his ouster from Breitbart in February.

The conservative speaker, Milo Yianapolis, is planning a comeback at the place literally set on fire

the last time he was there. Milo announcing a multi-day event on

Facebook, which will include events out at Berkeley. Violent protests erupted there in February

when the campus attempted to schedule an appearance for his book tour, as you might remember.

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bennett and commentator, Ann Coulter, will also speak.

Well, maybe.

University officials maintain that the Berkeley Patriot, the conservative student publication

responsible for inviting Unopolis in the first place, has blown through the deadlines

and flubbed basic logistical planning to such a degree it has put free speech

week in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Yonopoulos has an alternative account.

UC Berkeley has been racking its brains for months, trying to work out how to cancel free

speech week. They do not want us on campus. The administrators at UC Berkeley have tried

everything to derail Free Speech Week, up to and including accusing the students of being

inept. It's a confusing mess that invokes yet again the right-wing provocation and angry

left-wing response we've come to expect from campus outrage stories.

Angus Johnston is a historian of student activism and a professor at Hostos Community College in New York.

He says that's a false narrative that the press and news consumers should focus less on the issue of campus free speech and more on

Yanopolis's PR strategy.

Thank you.

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