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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?
The morning of March 8, Mahmoud Khalil was detained at his apartment in New York City.
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
Abigail Shrier: There Are Two Sets of Rules for Speech
Frat parties with offensive themes are swiftly punished. But publicly contemplate murdering Zionists? That’s a different story.
Abigail Shrier
Peter Savodnik: The Kids vs. the Empire
No one I spoke to had been to Israel or the West Bank or Gaza or could define Zionism. A report from an encampment 7,248 miles from Gaza.
Peter Savodnik
A Tale of Two Columbias
‘Half these kids don’t even know what they’re protesting for.’
Suzy Weiss
Camping Out at Columbia’s Communist Coachella
Ivy League activists, armed with melatonin gummies, gluten-free bread, and friendship bracelets, stand up against ‘the violent Zionist settler entity.’
Olivia Reingold
Kids Are Giving Up on Elite Colleges—and Heading South
‘Even if I could’ve gotten into Harvard, I wouldn’t have gone.’
Eric Spitznagel
They Were Assaulted on Campus for Being Jews
At Yale, Sahar Tartak was stabbed in the eye. At Columbia, Jonathan Lederer’s Israeli flag was burned and he was hit in the face.
Bari Weiss
I Was Stabbed in the Eye at Yale
The school has allowed anti-Israel students to run roughshod over their most basic policies. Yesterday, I paid the price for their inaction.
Sahar Tartak
At Columbia I Am Told: ‘Go Back to Poland’
My Israeli flag was stolen and burned. I was hit. And the school is preventing the NYPD from protecting us.
Jonathan Lederer
Censorship in the Name of Safety
In Brussels and at USC, speech is shut down on spurious grounds.
Oliver Wiseman
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