Unsafe in Michigan
A flap over a classroom viewing of "Othello" at the University of Michigan raises questions about cultural sensitivity, intolerance, and academic freedom
The latest victim of campus “cancel culture” is Bright Sheng, a professor of music composition at the University of Michigan, who offended students by screening a 1965 film of Othello featuring Lawrence Olivier in blackface. Sheng’s apology did little to appease his accusers, and he has been removed from teaching the undergraduat…