NOT-SO-FREE SPEECH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA:

The word “audience” refers to people listening. Didn’t these protesters intend to chant or shout or otherwise wreck the speech? If a university arranges a speaking event for someone who is invited as an honored guest and the event transmogrifies into one in which he will serve as a platform for other people who want to yell out their ideas, then the university should to expect him to decline to participate in what has become an alternate event of a sort that he would never have accepted if it had been the original invitation. To portray the erstwhile honored guest as fearful of critics and skeptics is demagoguery.

From the comments: “So, the people who were mad that Cantor was scheduled to speak are now mad that they won’t have the opportunity to shout?” I love the Dr. Weevil comment, too.

When famous people on the right speak at universities, they’re often abused. Why send taxpayer money to support institutions where this sort of thing is common?