All my adult life, I have warned people about the low moral and intellectual level of colleges and universities. This is the way I have put it: “If you send your child to college, you are playing Russian Roulette with his or her values.”  

Anti-Israel/pro-Hamas campus protests have engulfed hundreds of college campuses. But the more coastal, blue-state, and supposedly elite the campus was, the more furious the violence that sometimes followed these demonstrations.  

The rectitude or constitutionality of a court ruling is not determined by its political popularity in the moment, thank goodness. Let’s start right there.  

By: The Editors – nationalreview.com  – May 16, 2024 The sooner we can talk about this poisonous ideology in the past tense, the better. It was a great racket while it lasted, but so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives have spent the last year in retreat — compelling the practitioners of discriminatory “social justice” to conduct a flailing rearguard...

By: Jessica Schwalb – nationalreview.com – May 16, 2024 The main thing I’ve learned from the events of the past month is that the protest mindset disinclines students to learn from one another.  A black mask and the hood of a Choate sweatshirt helped conceal her identity. But her eyes were familiar.  “You don’t need to do this,” I said to...

Student radicals turning out in droves to protest for Palestine seem to expect that their organized mass demonstrations will foment revolutionary change.  

By: Zach Kessel – nationalreview.com – May 14, 2024 Harvard University will begin reinstating student protesters who have been “placed on involuntary leaves of absence” and enter discussions about the school’s endowment as part of an agreement between university administrators and anti-Israel encampment organizers, Harvard’s interim president announced in a letter on Tuesday. “Now that the area is being cleared...

By: Ben Sasse – wsj.com – May 3, 2024 Higher education isn’t daycare. Here are the rules we follow on free speech and public protests. Parents are rightly furious at the asinine entitlement of these activists and the embarrassing timidity of many college administrators. One parent put it bluntly: “Why the hell should anybody spend their money to send their...

By: Stanley Kurtz – nationalreview.com – May 7, 2024 Students stage a walk out from Hillsborough High School to protest after Florida education officials voted to ban classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in all public school grades, in Tampa, Fla., April 21, 2023 When public schools abandon political restraint and impose ideological partisanship on students, it results...

By: Jess Bravin and Melissa Korn – wsj.com – May 8, 2024 More than a dozen Trump appointees have signed a letter critical of the school’s response to student protests and academic-integrity issues. In a letter this week to Columbia University President Minouche Shafik, 13 jurists led by U.S. Circuit Judges James Ho and Elizabeth Branch said the New York...