TRUE: Hamas Has Exposed a Sickness in Western Society. “Indeed, there is something very dark bubbling up to the surface of society these days. The people who latched on to semantics in the video translation look absolutely insane. Not strange, not silly, not eccentric, not unpleasant. Actually insane. The fact that some of these people teach in universities is a dirty trick committed against humanity itself. . . . At some point, we in the West are going to have to grapple seriously with the fact that, yes, the protesters and their faculty supporters are pro-Hamas, just as they say they are.”

Related: The thousand deaths of today’s feckless academic cowards: Faculty and administrators are rarely, anymore, profiles in courage. Well, you reap what you sow. Well, some are cowards, others are actively on the other side. Plus: “In decades, there wasn’t a week that went by without someone—faculty, administrators, even a dean and a president—approaching me to write about something under my byline that concerned them. This despite the fact that the same newspaper would have been more than happy to run a column from them. There were never any takers because columns require a byline with an attached name. That’s a bridge too far for people who are more accustomed to stabbing Caesar than being Caesar.”