The new administration’s uncertain higher education policy took two strides into the light this week. First came the announcement of Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr.’s appointment to lead Trump’s White House task force on higher education reform. And then, responding to fiery, riotous protests at UC Berkeley that night, President Trump tweeted about defunding campuses where free speech comes under fire.

The speech was a scheduled appearance by Breitbart tech editor and flamboyant alt-rightist Milo Yiannopoulos, whose current schtick is to make a flashy show of upsetting oversensitive young people—and the fire that shut it down was a bitter rampage led by Berkeley students but joined by the Bay Area’s best malcontents.

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