THE STORY OF A COLUMBIA STUDENT falsely accused of rape.

He says that he is innocent and that the same university that found him “not responsible” has now abdicated its own responsibility, letting mob justice overrule its official procedures. The mattress project is not an act of free expression, he adds; it is an act of bullying, a very public, very personal, and very painful attack designed to hound him out of Columbia. And it is being conducted with the university’s active support.

“There is a member of the faculty that is supervising this,” he said. “This is part of her graduation requirement.”

Most of the lynch-mob justice on campuses is actively facilitated by faculty and staff. This is why, as I say, Congress needs to look at holding universities responsible for this kind of bullying.