Campus beat: Penn’s Dishonorable Bribe
“The University of Pennsylvania tried to cut a deal” with law prof Amy Wax, offering “to water down” sanctions against her “if she agreed to stop discussing — and criticizing — her treatment at the hands of the university. She refused,” reports the Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium.
“The university took no action against a cartoonist who depicted ‘Zionists’ drinking the blood of Gazans” or “against students and professors who celebrated the worst pogrom since the Shoah.” But it punished Wax for saying that diversity officials “couldn’t be scholars if their life depended on it.”
“It is rare for universities to sanction tenured professors and all but unheard of for them to do so over political speech. Penn made an exception for Wax” — “a precedent-setting blow to academic freedom.”
