Columbia Pays for Its Sins

The Trump administration’s task force to combat antisemitism pulled $400 million in federal grants and contracts from Columbia University this month in response to the school’s appalling mismanagement of the abuse of Jewish students by anti-Israel activists. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon stated that Columbia abandoned its legal obligation to protect Jewish students, who have faced “relentless violence, intimidation, and anti-Semitic harassment” on campus. The administration presented a list of demands for the university to follow as a condition for restored funding, and the school has since agreed to them. Defenders of academic freedom — some of them sincere — have howled that the university is bending the knee to Donald Trump.