THE EXECUTION OF AGHAJARI IS THE EXECUTION OF THE UNIVERSITY: Instapundit recommends Charles Paul Freund's essay noting that Iranian Professor Hashem Aghajari might well not appeal his death sentence, in order to compel Iran's mullahs to "confront their own barbarity." (Aghajari is a disabled veteran of the Iraq-Iran war.)

There is a call to arms to U.S. academicians, as well "Prominent secularist scholars, such as Egypt's Nasr Abu Zeid, have been driven from their jobs and even from their countries by Islamist student and faculty thugs who have been terrorizing intellectual life. Iran's students, on the other hand, appear anxious to be rid of their failed revolution, and to rejoin the modern world. As one prominent student told a student press agency, 'We must reach a stage in our destiny that we have lawful rights and freedoms'." We can do no less. It is not as if Donna Shalala knows how to tie a rope, or Loren Crabtree has tanks in his garage, or their brain-brothers or -sisters infesting the other universities can do anything more effective than screech.