Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus antiwar and civil rights demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, the courts and the police.
Ontario’s Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act threatens to undermine university autonomy, and could serve to censor critical thinking and dissent on campuses.
Nancy E. Berg, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
The Passover Seder commemorates the escape from slavery in Egypt. But then came the 40-year wandering in the desert – a story that resonates with much of Jewish history.
The risk for the president is that he has not anticipated just how much his own foreign policy might undermine his message and the strength of his personal appeal.
In 2015, I saw Jewish and Muslim students forge a set of group agreements so they could dialogue on the Middle East conflict. Initiatives like this or a ‘Semester in Dialogue’ program are promising.
Israel’s latest missile strike on Iran may be more a face-saving exercise aimed at satisfying members of its coalition government than a true escalation of hostilities.
In recent weeks, as thousands died and the threat of famine settled over Gaza, the relationship Israel and its western allies had started to fracture. Iran’s attack appears likely to change that.
A long-running conflict between adversaries Israel and Iran fell short of open confrontation – until both countries took more direct aim at each other.