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Ethan Bueno de Mesquita is Interim Dean and Sydney Stein Professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and author of Political Economy for Public Policy.
Private universities should respond to the charge of hypocrisy with a maximalist approach to free speech.
Washington Post reporting exposed that U.S. operations in Afghanistan were horribly mismanaged, but even a well-run mission would have been doomed to fail.
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