It is hard to single out the worst appeaser among the university presidents currently cowering before anti-Semitic mobs on campus, and trying to defuse the situation through negotiations with people who have no interest in negotiating. But I think we have a winner.
Yesterday, Carol Folt, president of the University of Southern California, tweeted out this:
I had a second meeting today with the same group from the encampment. We brought some very specific proposals that would address concerns they had about the endowment, which they have said is one of their most important issues.
I thought this sounded vaguely familiar. Yes, it did:
We, the German Führer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister, have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for our two countries and for Europe.
—Neville Chamberlain, September 30, 1938.
Chaser—Hamilton Hall at Columbia tonight. It doesn’t look over to me.
