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How the 1990s created a group of thinkers obsessed with cancel culture

ROYALSTON, Mass. — The recent death of 1960s anti-war and New Left activist Rennie Davis is the inspiration for this article. Without judgment or advocacy, I want to explore the varied shifts in consciousness that have taken place in the lives of several people who, like Davis, were peace and social justice activists during the Vietnam War era. Only a short time before his death, at age 80, Davis received some media attention because of a new movie about the 1969 Chicago Seven trial. In an obituary written for The Rag Blog, my college friend, activist and professor Jonah Raskin wrote, “R...

The New York Timesran a long article about the campus debate over Israel that highlighted Zoom’s cancellation of talks by Leila Khaled, because she had participated in two hijackings 50 years ago. Titled, “What Zoom Does to Campus Conflicts Over Israel and Free Speech,” the article placed Palestinian activism outside the normal range of political activism on campus, portraying supporters as leftwing crazies who are opposed by rightwingers– and watch out for the antisemitism! The article fits into the larger NYT narrative of the Israel/Palestine discourse: People aren’t motivated b...

What Zoom Does to Campus Conflicts Over Israel and Free Speech As battles over Israel and the Palestinian territories have migrated online, technology has scrambled the debate. Clashes erupted in 2018 at a student celebration of Israel in Washington Square Park in Manhattan.Credit...Mack DeGeurin Published Jan. 22, 2021Updated Feb. 10, 2021 Leila Khaled is a two-time hijacker, a member of a Palestinian group on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations. So it came as a shock to Javier Cohen, a senior at New York University, to find her speaking on an N.Y.U. webinar last semeste...

Trump leaves America at its most divided since Civil War CNN 1/19/2021 Analysis by Ronald Brownstein © MPI/Archive Photos/Getty Images In this July 22, 1968, file photo, Black Panthers march to a news conference in New York to protest at the trial of one of their members, Huey P Newton. Newton was later convicted of manslaughter in the death of an Oakland police officer. Donald Trump ends his tumultuous presidency with the nation confronting the greatest strain to its fundamental cohesion since the Civil War. The January 6 assault on the US Capitol capped four years in w...