Opinion

Georgetown’s Got a Serious Free-Speech Problem

CHILLING EFFECT

Legal scholar Ilya Shapiro became a cause célèbre in the campus free-speech wars after a terrible tweet. But the university made a bad situation worse.

Jeremy C. Young
Jeremy C. Young
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Jeremy C. Young

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