Liz Magill was forced to resign Saturday as president of the University of Pennsylvania—by all indications because, at a congressional hearing, she could not bring herself to declare that calls for the genocide of Jews are punishable speech. She would more justly have lost her job for being a bald-faced hypocrite when it comes to campus free expression. The future of higher education depends on which of these motives governs such decisions in the future.

[Sorry, not buying this argument. Magill got fired for being a smug and condescending hypocrite — and getting caught at it. She did not get canned for being a free-speech advocate; she got canned for her attempt to PRETEND to be a free-speech advocate and getting caught by Stefanik et al in the lie. The myriad mechanisms created by the Poison Ivies to quash heterodox speech and debate in practically every other DEI context except in application to Jews made the anti-Semitism of Academia plain as day. Magill got fired for embarrassing her school and alienating its sources of capital, and we can only hope to see more of this accountability at the other Poison Ivies. It’s that kind of accountability on which the future of higher education lies. — Ed]