Pretending that antisemitism is rampant at Harvard, Yale, and MIT is a cynical trivialization of a very serious issue. If there is anything 'sinister' here it's the eagerness of these guys to serve Bill Ackman.

I have no great love for university administrators. But turning decisions about university policies to the whims of a billionaire's political passions is a cure worse than the disease.

Not one of these people is a scholar of the Middle East. As far as I know none of them even speak or read Hebrew or Arabic. One, Jeff Flier, is a kidney doctor. The contempt for scholars and expertise could not be any clearer.

Helpful to understand the claims of Christakis, Flier, Pinker, Summers, that anti-semitism is a huge problem at the US's elite schools as part of the New England tradition of witch-hunts. In the Salem witch trials, for example, Cotton Mather defended the validity of 'spectral...