Bias in the classroom is what compels conservative students to host campus lectures

The increased media focus on canceled conservative campus lectures is bringing out new defenses of those disinvitations from the academic Left. Though observers from across the ideological spectrum have joined conservatives in championing free speech, substantive arguments in favor of barring speakers from campus are less common.

Amid the controversy over Ann Coulter’s canceled UC-Berkeley lecture, Colby College professor Aaron Hanlon took to the New Republic this week to argue: “Disinviting right-wing provocateurs isn’t a suppression of free speech. It’s a value judgment in keeping with higher education’s mission.”