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Trump’s Redundant Executive Order on Campus Speech

The president’s much-anticipated directive doesn’t do much.
Source: Evan Vucci / AP

President Donald Trump had not yet been in office for one month when he took to Twitter to scold a college. “If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view,” , “NO FEDERAL FUNDS?” The tweet was in response to protests at the institution, and it worried college leaders—not least because as a candidate, Trump was rather

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