Challenging campus free speech skeptics

Downplaying the campus free speech problem was suddenly very fashionable among writers on the Left last month. They published several articles arguing the uproar was overblown and receives a disproportionate share of conservative media coverage.

Though some of the critics seemed more interested in condescending to conservatives than engaging in debate, the exercise was probably helpful for forcing free speech crusaders to actually lay out their evidence and not take conventional wisdom for granted.