I really hope this is the last thing I have to publish about all this, but: I wrote for the Nation about Columbia’s suppression of speech about Palestine and its violation of the work we do in the classroom www.thenation.com/article/soci...

A Year Under the Palestine Exception at Columbia University

Columbia has tossed aside the mission at the heart of undergraduate liberal arts education: preparing student to be citizens in a pluralistic democracy.

This is excellent (and sad). We all owe you so much for being such a strong and consistent voice on this, Joe.

This was a good read but doesn't convey a sense of self reflection. WHY is Palestine the stopping point? And the writer's own participation in that WHY. Why is questioning -this- the unacceptable question? Without that self examination this falls flat.

Nervous about invoking Homer where @sentantiq.bsky.social can see, of course…

Thanks for writing this. You make a really clear case for what a college education ought to be about, which seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle for most of this year.