Professor Swain, Vanderbilt and expressing a view

Students at Vanderbilt University are targeting Carol Swain, a professor of law and politics at Vanderbilt (and a member of the James Madison Society, of which I also am a member), because she has criticized Islam — in other words, because she has her own views on matters of civic importance. I do not share Professor Swain's view that Islam itself is the problem. It seems to me that many Muslims disagree with the peculiar jurisprudence of Al-Qaeda and ISIS supporters, and I am not in a position

Students at Vanderbilt University are targeting Carol Swain, a professor of law and politics at Vanderbilt (and a member of the James Madison Society, of which I also am a member), because she has criticized Islam — in other words, because she has her own views on matters of civic importance. I do not share Professor Swain's view that Islam itself is the problem. It seems to me that many Muslims disagree with the peculiar jurisprudence of Al-Qaeda and ISIS supporters, and I am not in a position…