BROWNSHIRTS AT COLUMBIA: The D.C. Examiner editorializes:

The thugs should be expelled from Columbia and barred from admission at any other self-respecting university. But frankly, we doubt that Columbia officials will do much of anything beyond delivering figurative slaps on the wrists of the offending students and their accomplices. Too many American academic officials have become cowed by fear of appearing to violate the politically correct orthodoxy that rules most campuses.

Yes, commitments to free speech and academic debate are trotted out when it’s politically useful, but it’s been clear for years that many university administrators don’t really believe them.