In the latest flap over university students and free speech, there is a claim that it is conservative speech which is threatened at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Liberals may gloat a bit because two years ago it was they who were in the crosshairs over a speech in Whitewater by a controversial Colorado professor.
The fundamental principle at stake supersedes political ideology, however, and both sides should unite on this issue. Conservatives have a point â?? not the whole point extending to the left-wing conspiracy claimed by one Republican senator â?? but enough of a point that there should be some serious reconsideration of UW System policy.