Graduating senior Logan Rozos used his commencement speech at New York University (NYU) to speak out against “the atrocities currently happening in Palestine.” The administration reacted with horror, apologizing for the harms Rozos’s words had inflicted on “the audience [that] was subjected to these remarks.” Rozos, they said, had “abused a privilege that was conferred upon him.”

NYU went further than merely offering a verbal condemnation of Rozos — the administration made the decision to withhold his diploma.

If we abstract away from the political specifics of Rozos’s speech, this looks like exactly the kind of campus incident the Right would have been all over a few years ago. A craven university bureaucracy, pandering to easily offended activists, absurdly apologized to an audience for being “subjected” to a point of view they don’t want to hear, as if this young man’s exercise of his free speech rights amounted to an act of violence.