Free Speech And Picking Sides

Why Didn't The Cato Institute Stand Up For Free Thought?

One major party was very obviously absent from the recent four-month kerfuffle over Ilya Shapiro’s hiring at Georgetown University: his longtime employer, The Cato Institute. In my latest Spectator column, I ask: Why?

For expressing this pro-meritocracy view — one held by many Americans, and not just for the job of Supreme Court justice — Shapiro was unf…