helpful context for the many not physically present yet spreading information about the dynamics at Columbia. This would suggest that the choice of Columbia’s president to mobilize NYPD did precisely the opposite of its ostensible purpose - and in fact endangered Jewish students

Our team spent long hours reporting on and around Columbia’s campus on Thursday & Friday. I want to clear some stuff up. I didn’t see a single instance of violence or aggression on the lawn or at the student encampment. The student-led protest was peaceful and often very quiet…

A stunning statement from the American Association of University Professors, Barnard and Columbia Chapters.

“We have lost confidence in our president and administration, and we pledge to fight to reclaim our university.”

drive.google.com/file/d/1rciMXc…

Reporting on pro-Palestine repression for months, I've also had concern for Jewish students who grew up with identity-forming links to Israel & the human natured complex emotions they may feel.
This is heartening & reminds us what we can have, with warm generosity for each other:

Student activism is a global phenomenon that's hundreds of years old. I think the key is that we have too many pundits.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_…

Tough-minded editorial in ⁦Columbia Daily Spectator⁩ — very critical of administration— represents the views of the majority of the student newspaper’s staff and is worth your read columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/0…

8 children killed in Israeli strike while playing foozeball, CNN reports, showing, w/permission, faces and bodies of the dead & the cries of grieving parents. Every 10 min a child is killed or injured in Gaza, per reporter Jeremy Diamond.

School board member in 2024: “It’s not discriminating against his lifestyle — that’s his choice…But it’s him speaking about it.”

dreams of ordinary Germans under the Nazis, some remarkable stuff:

Biden is now about even w/ Trump in national polls, and the swing-state averages are well within the uncertainty intervals from potential poll bias.
Are some people going to admit their 'Biden is doomed, just look at the polls, he should step down' takes were perhaps premature?

Eric Adams about to send 500,000 cops to the earth’s core.

Joaquin Phoenix, Elliott Gould, Chloe Fineman and More Jewish Creatives Support Jonathan Glazer's Oscars Speech in Open Letter (EXCLUSIVE) variety.com/2024/film/glob…

Learned I’m not an official New Yorker because my reaction to that earthquake was 100% california

What a wild story (and a crazy media story too) nytimes.com/2024/03/31/mag…

Very interesting read. Full of spoilers so recommend watching the show first

A sharp critique of Haidt’s book (and thesis) in Nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

A lot of people who don’t know any history lecturing about other people who don’t know any history

Seems like almost every campus politics story going back generations has the same thesis: “Kids these days, amirite?”

More stories like this nhpr.org/nh-news/2024-0…

My former colleagues at The Economist have Biden polling ahead of Trump now for the first time since September 2023. My own average is not so optimistic, but it's clear Biden has gained ground over the last few weeks
economist.com/interactive/us…