Opinion

Georgetown’s Got a Serious Free-Speech Problem

CHILLING EFFECT

Legal scholar Ilya Shapiro became a cause célèbre in the campus free-speech wars after a terrible tweet. But the university made a bad situation worse.

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On June 6, Ilya Shapiro, the executive director of Georgetown University Law School’s Center for the Constitution, announced his resignation—and immediately became the right’s new cause célèbre in the campus

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