Shun, Delay, Outspend

How Powerful Institutions Spend Millions Refusing to Answer—and Trust the Legal System to Exhaust the Individual Who Demands They Do

Let there be no ambiguity.

I did not assault a student.

There was no torn shirt. No police incident. No arrest. No handcuffs. No five-year history of violence, criminality, or dangerous conduct.

There was no event to exaggerate. There was no event at all.

In thirteen years as a professor, I did not so much as raise my voice to a student. Yet within hours of…