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By Oliver Wiseman
04.22.24 — Culture and Ideas
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Last night we published two firsthand accounts by Jewish students assaulted on campus in recent days, Sahar Tartak at Yale and Jonathan Lederer at Columbia. For more on how America’s campuses became hotbeds of hate and intolerance, revisit Niall Ferguson’s Free Press essay “The Treason of the Intellectuals,” and watch Olivia Reingold’s documentary Ameri…

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Oliver Wiseman
Oliver Wiseman is the deputy editor of The Free Press. Previously, he was the executive editor of The Spectator World and a regular contributor to UnHerd, City Journal, the Evening Standard, and a range of other publications.
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