I lived through a similar college crisis after 9/11. The lessons of that era are urgent.
Left: Columbia University in New York City on Tuesday. Right: The University of California–Berkeley amid pro-Palestinian demonstrations on April 9, 2002.at Columbia University spread across the country, they have drawn increasing scrutiny from politicians and media figures who want to see them crushed. Most recently, GOP Sens. Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley made ato send in the National Guard to disperse the protestors. Though absurd, the idea was very much in keeping with the far right’s.
I started a Ph.D. program focusing on Middle East politics a week or so before 9/11. It didn’t take long before the patriotic fervor that enveloped the United States in the aftermath of those horrific attacks turned into calls to fire professors who violated the new codes of nationalist correctness that were informally imposed in the years following the disaster. What conservatives now decry as “” was standard operating procedure in the early 2000s for right-wing organizations.
If you can make tenuring someone a big enough headache, then colleges might ultimately prefer to pay one-time settlements to aggrieved faculty members rather than deal with complaints about them, particularly from deep-pocketed donors, for 30 more years. Campus Watch compiled lists of professors, by institution, with short articles documenting things that they had said or written about Israel or the “War on Terror.
You Don’t Want to Know How It’s Going Between Trump’s Lawyers and the Judge Presiding Over His Criminal CaseBut let’s be clear: Most people who have turned Columbia into a national lightning rod couldn’t care less about the human beings who live and work there or the very real challenges of making everyone on campus feel safe, heard, and free.
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