Thanks for this and for your substack. I am a law professor at the University of San Diego whom a group of students and the administration attempted to cancel a couple of years ago. My crime was referring to the Chinese government's supposed investigation of the origins of the Covid-19 virus as "Chinese cockswaddle." A rude term, I admit, but the claim was that I was being racist rather than political -- criticizing the PRC and the CCP. Luckily for me, FIRE came to my aid and then the newly founded AFA, which paid for my attorney. I resisted my cancellation, and held firm to the position that my comment, made on my personal blog, was protected by the First Amendment, and my job was protected by the terms of my tenured employment contract. Seeing that I would not budge, the university gave up on its efforts to discipline me.

I've decided to go on phased retirement now, as have four of my conservative and (classical) liberal colleagues, and we'll all soon be gone. The atmosphere in the law school has become too toxic to make the job fun anymore, which is too bad. I could not agree more with you that speaking up and holding firm is the sine qua non of winning this war against woke. Hannah Arendt says as much as well.