Liberals are displeased with President Trump’s new policy on campus free speech. “When you get into the possibility of punitive measures,” lifetime progressive activist Suzanne Nossell complained, “and the withholding of federal funds based on, you know, particularly kind of very vague definitions of, you know, an idea like free inquiry, that’s worrisome.”
Others absurdly argue that Trump’s executive order is authoritarian. But Trump is not telling universities what they have to do. He is merely placing conditions on federal funds, which is an entirely normal and proper thing to do. It’s reasonable to tell universities that the federal government will only fund institutions that hew to the American principles of free speech and robust debate.
