Student Protests
Daily Comment
Israel’s Politics of Protest
As demonstrations roil American campuses, the Israeli right is using them to its own ends.
By Ruth Margalit
Essay
The Kids Are Not All Right. They Want to Be Heard
What explains the student movement against the war in Gaza? Sometimes the correct answer is the one right in front of you.
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Essay
The Role of Words in the Campus Protests
In the campus protests over the war in Gaza, language and rhetoric are—as they have always been when it comes to Israel and Palestine—weapons of mass destruction.
By Zadie Smith
Fault Lines
A Generation of Distrust
Among the protesters on college campuses—and among the students who oppose them, too—there is a deepening disillusionment with American institutions.
By Jay Caspian Kang
Daily Comment
How Columbia’s Campus Was Torn Apart Over Gaza
The university asked the N.Y.P.D. to arrest pro-Palestine student protesters. Was it a necessary step to protect Jewish students, or a dangerous encroachment on academic freedom?
By Andrew Marantz
The New Yorker Interview
The Chancellor of Berkeley Weighs In
Carol Christ reflects on campus protests, then and now.
By Molly Fischer
News Desk
The Unhealed Wounds of a Mass Arrest of Black Students at Ole Miss, Fifty Years Later
At a peaceful protest of Confederate imagery in the school in 1970, dozens of students were arrested, suspended, and the remainder expelled.
By W. Ralph Eubanks
Daily Comment
Xi Jinping Tries to Crash the May Fourth Movement’s Centenary
Studying the legacy of the student protests that helped usher China into the modern era reveals how China’s Communist Party became the kind of bureaucratic behemoth its founders had tried to banish.
By Jiayang Fan
Personal History
Fake News, 1969: My Infamous Role in the Harvard Antiwar Protests
Thank goodness there are others more optimistic than I am, people willing to engage in civil disobedience like the occupiers of University Hall fifty years ago.
By David Sipress