Clark Kerr, who was fired as president of the University of California in 1967 for defending free speech on campus, had a good answer for his critics. “The University is not engaged in making ideas safe for students,” he liked to say. “It is engaged in making students safe for ideas.” Kerr’s famous quote came to mind as three university presidents — from Harvard, MIT and Penn — immolated themselves before a Congressional committee by declining to denounce antisemitism and calls for the destruction of Israel. In widely derided comments — the Penn president, Liz Magill, lost her job — they said hate speech can be censored only “when it crosses into conduct.” From a limited legal perspective, t
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