Last spring a couple hundred students at Columbia began camping out on a campus lawn to protest their university’s ties to Israel and its genocidal war on Gaza.
Great and revealing article. The First Amendment is in jeopardy. Columbia will never live down this shame; it's lost all credibility as an institution of debate and free speech.
The first targets of dictatorships are the free speech rights of intellectuals, especially the universities. We must stay vigilant to keep this nation's 248-year-old experiment in democracy -- societal evolution and progress for our human rights and human potential alive! Victims should not be ashamed when their rights are violated. Oppression keeps us mired in shallow, polarizing, dysfunctional cycles and stagnation of innovation and creativity. Freedom and liberty to thrive in a world that is more safe, more peaceful, more loving and more sustainable are the very ideals our collective ancestors -- and we today -- have craved since civilization began. Don't move backward. Move forward.
Great and revealing article. The First Amendment is in jeopardy. Columbia will never live down this shame; it's lost all credibility as an institution of debate and free speech.
The first targets of dictatorships are the free speech rights of intellectuals, especially the universities. We must stay vigilant to keep this nation's 248-year-old experiment in democracy -- societal evolution and progress for our human rights and human potential alive! Victims should not be ashamed when their rights are violated. Oppression keeps us mired in shallow, polarizing, dysfunctional cycles and stagnation of innovation and creativity. Freedom and liberty to thrive in a world that is more safe, more peaceful, more loving and more sustainable are the very ideals our collective ancestors -- and we today -- have craved since civilization began. Don't move backward. Move forward.