Tag: Student protests
Grieving Tiananmen as US Cops Crush Campus Protests
At the sight of the tent, my instinct was to check for blood stains, but the light blue nylon fabric showed little sign of wear. A placard explained its origin: In the spring of 1989, this tent was among the many pitched in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, where it sheltered student demonstrators from across the country. In the early hours of June 4, as more than 180,000 troops forced their way through city streets to clear out the square, the owner … Read more
How to Build a Homeland Security Campus
In short, in the spring semester of 2024, many of our campuses came to resemble armed camps.
What’s more, alongside such brute displays of force, there have been congressional inquisitions into constitutionally protected speech; federal investigations into the movement for divestment; and students suspended, evicted, and expelled, not to speak of faculty disciplined or simply dismissed.
Welcome to Repress U., class of 2024: a homeland security campus for the ages.
But don’t think it all only happened this spring. In … Read more
The Students Protesting the War in Gaza Are Continuing a Proud Tradition
May 21, 2024
One thing is guaranteed: The commitment of this generation of student activists will reverberate through the progressive movement for years to come.
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Campus Protesters Were Right to Spurn Peggy Noonan, Emblem of Media Obtuseness
Our narcissistic media elite doesn’t understand why their lies have made young people wary.
The first important fact about Peggy Noonan is that she belongs to the media aristocracy: a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush (for whom she coined the famous phrase “a thousand points