Once again, we learned Thursday night that good things happen when people let other people speak. Conservative writer Ben Shapiro, amidst opposition from Leftist agitators calling him a “white supremacist” and “fascist,” was able to speak to a far broader audience than the University of California, Berkeley students in front of him.

Though the university appeared to take steps to limit the audience inside Zellerbach Hall, online live streams of Shapiro’s lecture at California’s flagship school boasted tens of thousands of viewers. A raucous but peaceful crowd of demonstrators gathered outside, some to protest the lecture, some to protest Antifa, and some agitating on behalf on Antifa. Though at least three people were arrested for carrying banned weapons in the school’s secure zone, demonstrations were mostly peaceful and escalated only to the point of chants like “Fuck the police.”