Berkeley, California, has long occupied a soft spot in the liberal heart. In popular mythology, it’s the 1960s birthplace of the free speech movement, in which idealistic young hippies helped push for civil rights and an end to the Vietnam War.

Today, though, those ’60s radicals and their ideological descendants largely control the levers of power in both local government and the University of California’s flagship university. The results are both hilarious and sadly instructive, even in a state that has long been a leading exporter of daffy political ideas. Berkeley’s anything-goes, free-love vibe of yesteryear has today morphed into a unique brew of anything-goes lawlessness—think of last year’s Antifa riots.