A firestorm of criticism followed the university press’s removal of cartoons of Muhammad from a forthcoming book about the furor they caused in the Islamic world. Nonetheless, Yale administrators keep stupidly fanning the flames.

John Donatich, the press’s director, recently excused the university by claiming it wasn’t censoring the book because the cartoons can be found elsewhere.

More outrage followed. “I think it’s horrifying that the campus of Nathan Hale has become the first place where America surrenders to this kind of fear because of what extremists might possibly do,” said Michael Steinberg, an attorney and Yale graduate.