Ilya Shapiro resigns at Georgetown Law, citing 'untenable' status
What happened to Shapiro was shameful but at least it shines a light on the deep rot in modern academia, which is increasingly about ideological credentialing and little else.
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What happened to Shapiro was shameful but at least it shines a light on the deep rot in modern academia, which is increasingly about ideological credentialing and little else.
A legal scholar at Georgetown resigned rather than be fired following an investigation into a tweet he wrote about President Biden's Supreme Court pick.
Shapiro writes that a report from the Office of Institutional Diversity he received after being reinstated confirmed that he needed to leave.
Constitutional law scholar Ilya Shapiro announced his resignation from Georgetown University on Monday, saying that the school has "yielded to the progressive mob," and has "abandoned free speech."
Georgetown Law School professor Ilya Shapiro resigned from his position just days after a university investigation cleared him of wrongdoing for tweets criticizing President Joe Biden's vow to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court.