Harvard president Drew Faust announced Friday a policy to restrict members of single-sex final clubs, fraternities, and sororities from leadership positions elsewhere on campus—effectively coercing the gender-neutralization of groups which operate independently.

In Defining Ideas, a journal of the Hoover Institution, legal scholar Richard A. Epstein addresses Harvard’s latest assault on freedom of association, casting the college’s policy in light of a broader trend to enhance “diversity” at the cost of diversity. Looking to Harvard’s future, “There is now a perfect all-purpose cover for a set of top-down interventions that will push Harvard still further over the edge.”