The fight over speech on college campuses is back — this time, on social media.  We learned this week that Harvard College recently rescinded admission offers to at least 10 prospective freshmen over explicit and offensive posts. The posts were made in a private chat and reportedly included images “mocking sexual assault, the Holocaust, and the deaths of children,” according to the Harvard Crimson. One referenced the hypothetical hanging of a Mexican child – calling it “piñata time.” Did Harvard go too far? Nancy Gertner, a former federal judge at the U.S. district court in Boston who now teaches at Harvard Law School, and Nestor Ramos, a columnist at The Boston Globe, joined Jim Braude to debate.

Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for people under 50 in the United States. A New York Times report, citing data from across the country, says more than 59,000 people likely died of drug overdoses last year — the largest annual jump ever recorded in the U.S. In Massachusetts, nearly 2,000 people fatally overdose on opioid drugs last year. That’s why in April, the Massachusetts Medical Society came out in support of Supervised Injection Sites, where addicts can use drugs using clean needles alongside doctors who are ready to administer overdose drugs if necessary. Dr. Henry Dorkin, president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and Doctor Robert Baratz, an internal medicine specialist at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Milton, who opposes the proposal, joined Jim to debate.

The second installment of Jim’s thoughts on the state’s largest teacher’s union’s crusade against charter schools.