Amid activism, some Harvard Law students feel silenced

CAMBRIDGE — Bill Barlow, a third year student at Harvard Law School, won't shy away from challenging student activists who are demanding the school erase any references to its slaveholding founder and insisting that students be forced to take classes taught from the Critical Race perspective. Yet Barlow, who is white and grew up north of Los Angeles, is unique in the sense that he's the only student to publicly question recent demands by student activists.

CAMBRIDGE — Bill Barlow, a third year student at Harvard Law School, won't shy away from challenging student activists who are demanding the school erase any references to its slaveholding founder and insisting that students be forced to take classes taught from the Critical Race perspective. Yet Barlow, who is white and grew up north of Los Angeles, is unique in the sense that he's the only student to publicly question recent demands by student activists.…