After a Massachusetts Democrat congressman — who is also a Harvard University alumnus — slammed Harvard President Claudine Gay for claiming she supported free speech to bolster her inaction against calls for the genocide of Jews, Harvard canceled an event at which the lawmaker was to speak.
On December 8, Harvard’s conservative John Adams Society was supposed to hold a discussion on the future of U.S.–China relations, featuring Reps. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) and Ro Khanna (D-CA). The event was co-sponsored by the journal American Affairs.
One month prior, on November 6, David Vega of the John Adams Society, booked a room; he received an email from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that confirmed the event and the room in which it was to be held, as Sohrab Amari — who reviewed the email — wrote in The American Conservative.
Auchincloss’s chief of staff communicated with…
