This is John Bachelor.

From a much longer conversation with my colleague Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution, an educator who writes often about education in America,

we look at the events of these last days since the tragedy in the Middle East was revealed to all of us, the horrors of it,

a Hamas gangsters, killers, and what they did to civilians. And what we're continuing to learn is that

it's unacceptable. What we're looking at here are terrorists, our killers, our marauders. We're not looking at a political movement and yet

Peter and I puzzle about the conduct of university administrators and students across America at campuses,

university parks, wherever the academics are venerated

and how the contradictions pile up heretofore hate speech, provocation was met by stony

silence and punishment, often firings or exiting or

suspensions from college campuses and university environments, called the

cancel culture and now because the protests the

marches the support is for Hamas which is really difficult to imagine how you could campaign or speak or sign on the side of Hamas.

But in any event, the university administrators, the college campus presidents, are discovering free speech, the First

Amendment, the right to assemble.

Peter talks of his alma mater Swarthmore College and I mention my alma

matter Princeton College, Princeton University.

Both instances the administrators have discovered the First Amendment,

free speech.

And it's a puzzlement going forward. Here's Peter to explain.

But it still has to be emphasized that sophomore college president Valerie

Smith on the one hand rightly in and at Swarthmore College we protect the free exchange of diverse ideas and

perspectives. That's fine. She goes on to say though that hateful rhetoric and

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