Cambridge University shows hideous intellectual weakness

Published March 21, 2019 7:37pm ET



As President Trump wisely uses an executive order to protect free speech against college-campus thought police, news from Cambridge in England reminds us that leftist lunacy isn’t confined just to American universities.

Cambridge University, a pillar of learning for more than 800 years, has rescinded an already accepted offer of a fellowship to Jordan Peterson, a psychology professor from Toronto. Jordan’s sins? Challenging the tenets of political correctness and criticizing an Orwellian proposal by the Canadian government that would criminalize the failure to use bizarre gender-neutral pronouns for those who want them.

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