FROM THE GAZETTE: “In advance of a December event debuting the Legislature’s new Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa — promising to foster ‘greater viewpoint diversity on campus’ — organizers emailed personal invitations to nearly 100 lawmakers, all of them Republicans. The invitations touted a handful of high-profile, nationally known conservative guests — including activist Christopher Rufo, who charged the center $34,000 for his appearance — who would speak in support of the center’s mission to “expand the intellectual diversity of the university’s academic community.” Read the full account here.