A historian with controversial views on Iran will get his chance to speak at George Mason University after all. John D. Lewis, an assistant professor of history at Ashland University, in Ohio, had been scheduled to deliver a lecture last month at the Virginia university, “‘No Substitute for Victory’: The Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism.”

The speaking invitation was withdrawn after Muslim students allegedly protested and the university discovered that the talk’s sponsor, the Objectivist Club, had let its charter lapse. The College Republicans’ campus chapter then signed on as co-sponsor, and Mr. Lewis will give the lecture on April 24.

In it, according to an advertisement for the talk, he will argue that “if Americans want to end the threats against their lives and liberty, they must first identify the advocates of political Islam (those who seek to impose Islamic Law by force) as the true enemy, and then destroy that enemy — beginning with the Islamic State of Iran.” —Jennifer Howard