Rashid Khalidi Fri 1 Aug 2025 06.00 EDT
Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions. Disgracefully, all of this is being done to cover up one of the greatest crimes of this century, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, a crime in which Columbia’s leadership is now fully complicit.
I recall a time before the internet. Only way you would know about world events is the newspaper or news broadcast. Those were simpler times.
Each individual has a choice that is theirs alone. If you want to personally protest a college, restaurant or event then have at it. Just don’t expect them to fail because you don’t support them. In life everyone is fighting to exist and that goes for institutions as well.
What about this has you nostalgic for the pre-internet?
