Campus protests and politics: The limits of comparisons to 1968
Teaching a class about that fateful year has driven home that history really does seem to rhyme sometimes.
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Teaching a class about that fateful year has driven home that history really does seem to rhyme sometimes.
As someone who remembers when Columbia University students took over Hamilton Hall 56 years ago, let me say that 2024 is not 1968. Back then, our whole country was engaged in debate over the justice of a Vietnam War that involved tens of thousands of American troops.
As the philosopher and baseball player Yogi Berra once (supposedly) said, it’s deja vu all over again. Student protesters are occupying campuses of famed univ
As the philosopher and baseball player Yogi Berra once (supposedly) said, it’s deja vu all over again. Student protesters are occupying campuses of famed universities across the country. In New York, Columbia University protesters occupied administrative offices in Hamilton Hall and were cleared out by police, exactly 56 years to the day after student protesters […]
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