An essay on the activism over the Israeli-Gaza war and our struggles with freedom of speech
Update 05/06/2024: I spent the morning with a good friend who is a professor and associate dean at a major public university in the U.S. I had wanted to ask him about his thoughts on the Palestinian/Israeli campus protests. He was trapped in my car for an hour while we drove home from our morning destination and it was a good opportunity. I commented that I had read the essay posted below and he responded that he, too, had read it. For some reason I was surprised. I shouldn't have been; he and his wife are the most well-read people I know, by far. He did not like the essay, thought is was one-sided and biased and further stated that he does not know why the Atlantic published this college sophomore's essay. Overall, my friend feels that the reporting on campus protests has been distorted and falsified with the agendas of the reporting sources being given priority. He supported his claim with much more than I will be able to write ac...