Culture | University protests
A Helpful Perspective on the University Mess
Conservatives are yelling “Never again!”
On April 18th, 2024, Columbia University was ranked #7.
No, the 270-year-old Ivy League stalwart situated in New York City, had not been newly anointed America’s seventh-best college. Instead, its pro-Palestinian protests had become the seventh most searched topic on Google. Conservatives are well and truly pissed.
Things have gotten so awkward for Ivy League universities that the US Congress is demanding they explain their behavior like penitent children. It’s as if Senator McCarthy — god rest his alcohol-addled soul — has returned to exact revenge after dying alone and unloved three years after the glory of his 1954 Senate hearings determined to root out communism.
Today’s menace is labeled antisemitism.
No matter how much the Jewish faculty of Columbia might argue against the “weaponization” of anti-semitism, conservative politicians have found a new message for attacking the revolutionary elite in America’s universities. Representative Stefanik of New…
