Academia
The uproar over “Word Crimes” continues.
Beijing menaces its neighbors and seeks to expand its influence across the globe.
A respected journal questions orthodoxies, and professors rush to censor it.
From academia to philanthropy to journalism, my experience with Jewish leadership has been by turns discouraging and inspiring.
In the late 1960s, appointments in Jewish studies were springing up in tandem with the “adversarial culture.” But we intended to strengthen the universities, not to trash them.
Celebrating anti-Israel screeds.
Chimerical anti-Semitism.
From Iowa to Silicon Valley.
Neglecting students and supporting terrorism.
Losing public authority over Scripture.
Professional study of Middle East history now belongs to incompetents and political agitators.
In pursuit of openly political ends, some professors risk destroying the principles and safeguards that for over a century have protected the freedom of their colleagues.
When jargon become incantation.
Was there a massacre at Deir Yassin?
