By Selwyn Duke

Vladimir Lenin, author of the Russian Revolution, once told a colleague that “yes, we are contradicting what we said before” — as The New Criterion paraphrased it in 2019 — “and when it is useful to reverse positions again, we will.” This could come to mind when pondering a complaint from liberal law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz.

“Some of the same hard leftists who have been on the forefront in denying free speech rights to those deemed politically incorrect,” notes the famed octogenarian, “have now begun to champion the First Amendment in defense of those who advocate the killing of Jews.”

In particular, Dershowitz trains his sights on Harvard University and its now-infamous president, Claudine Gay, an affirmative-action hire who’s being retained and defended by her institution despite revelations that she’s guilty of repeated acts of plagiarism. It’s her copying of Lenin, however, that has raised Dershowitz’s ire.

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