In an op-ed in the student newspaper last week, Dean of Social Science Lawrence Bobo said that faculty members who excessively criticize the university should be subject to discipline. It was a stance that seemed, to Bobo’s critics, like a direct attack on the bedrock academic principle that university faculty should be free to express their opinions. His method? He put forward an argument so offensive to Harvard professors that pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel faculty members joined together to denounce him. A Harvard dean pulled off the seemingly impossible this week: uniting the opposing factions on Harvard’s campus. Not so, Bobo...