“We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.,” a Wednesday New York Times headline read. Sure, plenty of well-known Democrats (mostly from Hollywood and the media) vowed to leave the U.S. in the event of a second Trump presidency: Sharon…
An administrative law judge ruled on Friday that Columbia University graduate student and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported under the Immigration and Naturalization Act. Before we celebrate that decision too much we have to remember that there will…
“The issue is not the issue,” went a mantra popular 58 years ago when activists shut down Columbia University and held several administrators hostage. Was the protest about a falsely labeled “segregated” gymnasium, the school’s connections to the Department of…
In the hallowed halls of Columbia University, where academic discourse once thrived, a darker narrative has emerged — one that challenges the very foundations of free speech and national security. The recent arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and…
Last October, we witnessed a disturbing shift in schools and universities across the country. Following the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, antisemitic rhetoric surged to alarming levels. Students claiming to advocate for a “free Palestine” signed antisemitic proclamations, engaged…
Long ago and far away, when I was a student at Columbia, we boys wore Oxford cloth shirts, silk ties, and we shaved, washed our hair, and showed up in class with our teeth brushed and our breath fresh and…
I am a Columbia University alumnus, so this one hits home. When I was there in the mid-1970s, Jews not only were safe, but I was elected by the entire undergraduate class to be their representative in the University Senate….
A powerful, swelling wave of anti-Semitism on American campuses has surprised many an observer. I was not one of them. The writing was on the wall once radical leftism seized control of America’s higher education in the wake of the…
The problem with British history, said Salman Rushdie, is that so much of it happened abroad. By way of revision, we might say that the problem with American politics today is that all of it is happening abroad. University campuses…
