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![A black-and-white image of members of the National Guard firing tear gas at student protestors at Kent State University on May 4, 1970.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_205_x_203/public/2024-05/GettyImages-515103636.jpg?itok=rRmiYT3L)
The Long Shadow of May 4, 1970
The lessons of Kent State should not go unremembered, Todd Diacon writes.
![The book cover for Anthony Grafton’s “Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa.”](/sites/default/files/styles/image_205_x_203/public/2024-05/Duplicate%20Only%20%2818%29.png?itok=aMQ_zaSl)
The Scholar-Magician
Scott McLemee reviews Anthony Grafton’s Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa.
![An Israeli flag waves in the foreground in a photo of Columbia University’s campus.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_205_x_203/public/2024-05/GettyImages-2150229132.jpg?itok=R4sAOv0m)
No Country for Israeli Academics
Atar David writes that he no longer sees a place for himself, or other Israeli scholars, in U.S. academe.
![Two pro-Palestinian protestors at New York University stand face-to-face with a line of New York Police Department officers.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_205_x_203/public/2024-04/GettyImages-2148021831.jpg?itok=bGXfWeh7)
Police Repression Is the Problem, Not the Solution
Moral bankruptcy and institutional authoritarianism best describe the increasingly violent campus climate for pro-Palestinian student activism, write Charles H.F. Davis III, Jude Paul Dizon, Jessica Hatrick, and Vanessa Miller.
![A police officer mounted on a horse, faces a group of protesting students, one holding a sign that reads “Free Palestine”.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_205_x_203/public/2024-04/GettyImages-2150053387.jpg?itok=YS0j6g4E)
Are We Repeating the Mistakes of the 1960s?
Police-based strategies for containing campus protests fail in balancing safety with student expression, Yalile Suriel writes.
![A paper version of the FAFSA application.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_205_x_203/public/2024-03/GettyImages-1723267822_0.jpg?itok=d_Zph8ly)
Troubled FAFSA Rollout Hides Deeper Problems
The new FAFSA formula undermines the longtime goal of creating a better, fairer federal student aid process, Diane Auer Jones and Jim Blew write.
![A quote from Toni Morrison is in white text against a black background. The quote reads: “The innate feature of the university is that not only does it examine, it also produces power-laden and value-ridden discourse.”](/sites/default/files/styles/image_205_x_203/public/2024-04/Toni_Morrison_quote_2.jpg?itok=JsG93r4c)
“How Can Values Be Taught,” Gaza Edition
Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem asks what values universities are teaching through their silence on Gaza.
![A photo of Minouche Shafik, president of Columbia University, during the House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing on Columbia’s response to antisemitism last week.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_205_x_203/public/2024-04/GettyImages-2147879686.jpg?itok=RIpKPYU4)
A MAGA Assault
Higher ed’s leaders need to push back on attacks from MAGA Republicans, not try to placate them, William M. LeoGrande and Scott A. Bass write.
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