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Student Protests

Daily Comment

Israel’s Politics of Protest

As demonstrations roil American campuses, the Israeli right is using them to its own ends.
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.
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.
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.
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?
The New Yorker Interview

The Chancellor of Berkeley Weighs In

Carol Christ reflects on campus protests, then and now.
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.
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.
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.
News Desk

A New Generation Calls for Gun Control

Cultural Comment

Yale’s Unsafe Spaces

The Mail

How to Pay for Education

The Mail

How to Pay for Education

DVD Notes

Give or Take a Year