Written by John Wood Jr. (Center bias) and originally published on the OmniAmerican Society. I was recently watching a debate between Steven Crowder (a popular, irreverent, and influential conservative personality known for the show “Louder with Crowder” and his “change my mind” open campus debates with students) and esteemed Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy, who I think it’s fair to say is one of the more prominent educators in America.The pairing caught my eye as I was scrolling through YouTube. But what was fun to see was that, in their debate, they had a surprising chemistry, albeit a combative one.The topic was free speech and affirmative action on college campuses in general and Harvard’s record on free speech and ideological and racial discrimination in particular. (Crowder sees Harvard as having discriminated against white and Asian students through its affirmative action policies, a matter which has been the subject of notable court cases.)For the most part Cr…