JEFF GOLDSTEIN: Never Again, Again. “In a post to X yesterday, Meghan McCardle, lately of The Washington Post (but to me, always a fellow old-school political blogger), tried threading the same Gordian knot many coastal intellectuals have been keen to thread of late — namely, the supposed difficulty of reconciling support for free speech with the uncomfortable, or at least, inconvenient, specter of the educated elite, from whom their kind routinely draws the next generation of ideological reinforcements, protesting in support of a government explicitly dedicated to ethnic cleansing and genocide. . . . The truth is, these students didn’t offer ‘tone deaf statements’ in the laudable and courageous course of free speech activism. Rather, as the presumptive future leaders of a pluralist country — adults who have access to more information faster than any others like them in history — these self-satisfied virtue groupies got a charge out the transgressive stance of blaming the Jews for the slaughter, rape, and kidnapping of their own civilians, many of whom were killed in door-to-door sweeps whose object was their complete extermination.”