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For years, elite universities have avoided the real source of the campus free speech crisis. Administrators blamed polarization. Faculty blamed fragile students. Everyone blamed social media, donors, or outside politics. What almost no one in power was willing to say was the obvious truth: Faculty activism has played a central role in chilling speech and narrowing debate.