Here’s a piece by Alan Dershowitz on the invitation of former-President of Iran to speak at Harvard’s Kennedy School. The opening is blunt:

“The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University should not cancel the scheduled speech by former president Mohammad Khatami of Iran. Universities must never submit to censorial pressures by individuals or groups that disagree with, or are deeply offended by, a speaker’s ideas.”

Dershowitz’s subsequent remarks on “group offense” are worth pondering.