Hello and happy Saturday. The Ohio bureau was closed on Thursday and Friday this week so that I could indulge in a little March Madness. Wings were eaten, brackets were busted, and I’d never been more grateful for the feature on YouTubeTV that lets you watch four games at once. But my playing hooky doesn’t mean the news stopped.
Earlier this month, the Trump administration announced it was canceling $400 million in funding to Columbia University because of the university’s failure to quell antisemitism on campus, and gave the school a list of demands to have the funding restored: banning masks at protests, hiring more security, and placing its Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies Department under receivership. On Friday, the school agreed to most of the demands.
On Thursday, we published a Dispatch Debate on the topic. Yale law professor Keith Whittington argued that the move is a threat to academic freedom. He…
