It is never wise to throw the baby out with the bathwater. But that is the perverse prospect we now face because of the striking failure of many college and university officials to confront campus antisemitism, both during the last academic year and now as the students return to campus.
Political decisionmakers who view the performance of the administrators as unacceptable — and who are answerable to voters rather unimpressed with campus elitism — often have only blunt instruments with which to address the kind of administrative behavior that we have seen.
One such blunt instrument is a potential reduction in federal funding for a wide range of campus activities and functions.