“I should bitterly contest a preemption by the state of the duties and privileges of the alumni of the private institutions themselves to guide the destinies of the schools they support,” Buckley wrote. Buckley explicitly rejected the idea of campuses as free speech zones, but the president has long claimed to be defending exactly this principle — saying in 2019 that “taxpayer dollars should not subsidize anti-First Amendment institutions.” Indeed, the notion that there is a free speech crisis on campus that must be addressed has become a mainstream conservative position in the era of “wokeness” and “cancel culture.” While the site publishes at a truly astonishing clip, the only mention of Ozturk’s case is a passing reference in a March 31st news roundup — in which the author describes her as “a Turkish national [whose] visa was revoked after the State Department found she ‘engaged in activities in support of Hamas.’”
Author: Zack Beauchamp
Published at: 2025-04-01 22:19:26
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