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Campus Wars
How to Save Higher Ed—and End the Serial Abuse of American Taxpayers
The American people have been enormously generous to our universities. It is time for schools to honor their end of the bargain.
Christopher F. Rufo
This Scientist Says MIT Ruined His Life. Now He’s Fighting for Redemption.
David Sabatani is battling sexual harassment accusations that he says were part of a ‘DEI-inspired purification.’ Can he win?
Suzy Weiss
A Pogrom Is Brewing in Canada
The days of exclusionary signs at golf clubs have been replaced by open calls for jihad in Jewish neighborhoods. This will not end well.
Casey Babb
Denounced, Cursed, and Ghosted: What Harvard’s Antisemitism Report Found
‘I’m a Jew and I’ve learned that that is enough to make me no longer worthy of their friendship or even basic kindness at school.’
Maya Sulkin
Douglas Murray on Joe Rogan, Hamas, and Moral Collapse in the West
‘The great thing about truth is that it punctures the darkness. We can see it.’
Bari Weiss
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‘Reminiscent of the KKK’: Columbia Janitors Sue Protesters Who Took Over Hamilton Hall
Mario Torres and Lester Wilson were trapped inside a Columbia building by masked protesters last spring, assaulted, and called ‘Jew lovers,’ according…
Frannie Block
Trump Admin to Harvard: Where Is Your Antisemitism Report?
Harvard’s antisemitism task force promised to publish its findings last fall. Months after the deadline, it still hasn’t appeared—and now the federal…
Maya Sulkin
Harvard Had It Coming. That Doesn’t Mean Trump Is Right.
The school is taking a stand for academic freedom. How long will it last?
Charles Lane
I Was Called an ‘Inbred Swine’ at Princeton Last Night
Anti-Israel protesters shut down a campus event by pulling a fire alarm and hurling vile slurs. Will our college president finally act?
Danielle Shapiro
Columbia President Says One Thing to Trump Admin—and Another in Private
In a call with faculty, Katrina Armstrong says the school plans not to stick to some of its agreements with the Trump administration.
Maya Sulkin
LISTEN: Will Mahmoud Khalil Be Deported?
Bari Weiss
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Alan Dershowitz: Mahmoud Khalil Deserves Speech Rights, Not Sympathy
The anti-Israel green card holder’s behavior may be constitutionally defensible, but it’s still morally condemnable.
Alan Dershowitz
The ICE Detention of a Columbia Student Is Just the Beginning
A White House official says that Mahmoud Khalil posed a ‘threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States.’ And that…
Gabe Kaminsky, Madeleine Rowley, and Maya Sulkin
Deborah Lipstadt: Why I Won’t Teach at Columbia
I was Biden’s antisemitism envoy. I had been considering an academic appointment at the Ivy League institution. Not anymore.
Deborah Lipstadt
You Can’t Blame Iran for America’s Anti-Israel Protests
College professors have played a greater part in our domestic strife than Persian cyber-spies.
Eli Lake
Getting Harassed on Campus Isn’t ‘Educational’
A Princeton professor has argued that conservative students like me get more out of college.
Jonas Du
We Misunderstood the Nazis
Learning about the Holocaust was supposed to prevent any of this from happening—or at least help us understand it when it did. Why didn’t it work?
Matti Friedman
I Went to Cover a Protest. I Was Surrounded by a Mob.
But in the context of other incidents over the past 24 hours, what happened to me was mild.
Olivia Reingold
Jerry Seinfeld: ‘The Uncomfortable Feeling of Awkward Humor Is Okay’
In his Duke commencement address, the comedian offered advice we can all use: Bust your ass. Pay attention. Fall in love. And, most importantly, ‘you…
The Free Press
‘I Could Have Been Killed in There’
Two more Columbia custodians tell The Free Press about the night that left them ‘traumatized.’ Their union is now suing.
Frannie Block
Exclusive: Columbia Custodian Trapped by ‘Angry Mob’ Speaks Out
‘We don’t expect to go to work and get swarmed.’ A Free Press exclusive with facilities worker Mario Torres.
Frannie Block
The ‘Micro-Intifada’: American Protesters Are Being Trained in ‘Militancy’
Guides created by radical groups are teaching pro-Palestinian students to use violence on campus.
Frannie Block
Don’t Expand DEI. Dismantle It.
We come from two sides of the political spectrum, write Christopher F. Rufo and Jenin Younes. But both of us agree that the Antisemitism Awareness Act…
Christopher F. Rufo and Jenin Younes
TGIF: Don’t Tread on Me, Bro
Our heroes in Vineyard Vines. Plus: Drew Barrymore and Momala. Why the campus jihadis should run the border. Pro-natalist and proud. And much, much…
Nellie Bowles
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