Donald Trump has issued a flurry of executive orders in his first week in office. One of them outlawed DEI—diversity, equity, inclusion—quotas, or reverse racial discrimination, whichever term you like to use, in government, but it doesn’t, I think, apply to private entities, unless you enroll at any private entity, a university like mine, Stanford, who gets federal funds, will be subject to it. And that’s going to be tricky, but I hope he tries to make that executive order as well.
My point is, we’ve had some things in the news very quickly. Columbia University, right at the beginning of the new spring semester, had a class offered by a Jewish professor on the history of Israel and Judaism in the Middle East, and it was swarmed by pro-Palestinian protesters. We don’t know who they were. They had mask on, of course, and they disrupted the class because it was…
