"Call in the cops. Release the tear gas. Make arrests. Convict the arrested. Give the convicts real punishments.

"Repeat those steps, again and again.

"That's how colleges and the civil authorities with jurisdiction over them should react to campus protests that turn violent, or that block free access to public spaces, or that physically interrupt people's work or 'occupy' their workspaces, or that shut down the right of others to speak.

"It is long past time to overrule mob rule, to protect the rights of interested listeners to listen, to insist that words and viewpoints are not violence and should not be met with violence. And it's time to teach spoiled brats that they are the ones abusing an unearned privilage - the privilege of higher education - if they use force or its threat or even their vocal cords to deny free speech to others that the agitators denounce for being 'privileged.'"