The New Yorker Radio Hour:

Not since the Vietnam War has a protest movement reached college campuses with such fury. We look at the reverberations at one school, Harvard University.

With David Remnick 

From Cambridge to Los Angeles and in dozens of cities in between, college campuses are being roiled by protest against American financial and military support for Israel’s war in Gaza—and by university actions, including mass arrests, to suppress the demonstrators. There hasn’t been a college protest movement as widespread since the Vietnam War. Apart from the violence in the Middle East, the demonstrations also engage crucial issues of speech and academic freedom in the context of America’s culture war. David Remnick looks at the turmoil and its reverberations through the lens of one campus, Harvard University, where much of the furor began. He speaks with a protester whose statement justifying the October 7th Hamas attack became a political flash point; two student journalists who covered the resignation of the university’s president, Claudine Gay; the law-school professor Randall Kennedy; and the former Harvard president Lawrence Summers.

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