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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.

Hello and welcome to Free Expression from the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal.

I'm Jerry Baker, editor at large of the journal.

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This week, is higher education a threat to America?

After last week's congressional hearing featuring the presidents of three of the nation's most prestigious universities,

at least that's how they like to think of themselves,

we're left wondering, just how bad is the ideological extremism and intolerance on campus?

For the weekend, Elizabeth McGill, President of the University of Pennsylvania,

resigned along with the university's board chair after she was unable to tell a member of Congress

where the cause for the genocide of Jewish people would be in breach of the university's speech rules.

Claudine Gay, president of Harvard University,

was similarly reticent to say that threatening a Jewish genocide amounted to intimidation.

But Harvard's board, interestingly, stood by her this week.

Sally Cornblath, the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

is also still in place despite her performance at the hearing too. Now, the three presidents' defense of this

virulently anti-Semitic form of free speech came as something of a surprise to those who've paid

attention to what's been going on at universities and colleges. In the last few years, academics,

public figures, researchers, and even students have been denied platforms and

teaching positions and even places at these universities because their views don't conform

to the prevailing left-wing orthodoxes. So what have we actually learned after these

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