It would be trivial to start any discussion of the genocide in Gaza, now 19-months old and counting, looking at how the consequences of campus protests and journalistic free speech have decimated both the fourth estate — the media —and academia. Look toward statistics of over 53,000 killed and 100,000 wounded by Israeli forces, and nearly 2,000 killed since the breaching of a ceasefire. Palestinian forces reportedly killed 1,195 people, including 815 civilians in their initial invasion of Israel. Look […]

What is America at its best?We put this question to our team — to find out what version of America meets the potential of what we want America to be. Some of us answered, some didn’t. Some wondered if doing so could — in this America we’re living in right now — draw punishment from the powers that be.Some looked at history and others the future and others, songs. Here’s what we said: In my American history class, we learn […]

In the apparent race toward making xenophobia official U.S. policy, a small group of Republican lawmakers is cheering a bill that would bar Chinese international students from the U.S. Congressman Riley M. Moore of West Virginia, who in a press release calls his bill “groundbreaking,” promises the proposal would stop the issuance of student visas to Chinese nationals. The bill’s name is juvenile sounding – “The Stop Chinese Communist Prying by Vindicating Intellectual Safeguards in Academia Act” and its primary […]