Following the
Brandeis University-Ayaan Hirsi Ali controversy of 2014, when Brandeis
revoked an invitation it had offered to Ayaan Hirsi Ali to speak and receive an honorary degree at the university's commencement ceremonies. In response to this action aagainst the Somali-born feminist and political essayist and others, Michael Bloomberg
spoke out against this trend of liberal intolerance. Michael Bloomberg
said in his Harvard Commencement speech 2014 entitled,
'Don't Major in Intolerance':
