‘Cancel culture’ muffs on Richard Grenell, keeps right ‘to speak his mind’

A campus “cancel culture” bid to block former acting intelligence chief Richard Grenell from a one-year fellowship at a Pittsburgh university failed this month when officials determined that, while controversial, he has a “right to free speech.”

The selection of Grenell, a diplomat who was President Trump’s first ambassador to Germany, to a fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Politics and Strategy drew an outcry from students and faculty upset with his aggressive social media and likely his ties to the president.