Mark Meckler
8. Williams College
Student organizers of a speaker series called “Uncomfortable Learning” invited a polarizing conservative commentator, John Derbyshire, to speak and debate on his writings about “race realism.” However, WC President Adam Falk didn’t allow it saying, “There’s a line somewhere, and Derbyshire, in my opinion, is on the other side of it.”
In a single, paternalistic stroke, President Falk declared that there were certain speakers and viewpoints that Williams students weren’t to engage, and he showed the lengths Williams would go to to keep them off campus. Falk has done his students a serious disservice—and earned Williams a place on this year’s list.
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