Initial Thoughts on the Speech
And while I strongly objected to Columbia University inviting him to speak, they surprisingly didn't throw him soft balls. Yet -- sadly -- they allowed him to avoid actually answering any of the tough questions ...
It seems Bollinger's rhetoric about how it's good for academia to debate these questions, yada, yada, yada, seems to have been sincere, though misguided. At least, it appears, Columbia was inadvertently used for propaganda purposes (as opposed to being intentionally used).