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Hezbollah’s Leader Pledges Revenge for Killing of a Hamas Leader in Beirut

Just 24 hours before he took to the podium on Wednesday, Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon’s powerful armed group…

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I Teach a Class on Free Speech. My Students Can Show Us the Way Forward.

Free speech is very hard to get right, especially on campus — as has been evident all fall at the…

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The Fall of Penn’s President Brings Campus Free Speech to a Crossroads

Before the Israel-Hamas war, universities were already engulfed in debates over what kinds of speech are acceptable.

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Training People to Think of Themselves as Weak Is a Form of Abuse

The presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been roundly condemned for arguing…

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Campus Speech Codes Should Be Abolished

The tentative, lawyerly answers given last week by three university presidents at a House committee hearing investigating the state of…

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What Is the Real Meaning of ‘Pro-Life’?

More from our inbox: The Texas Abortion RulingThe Campus Clash of Free Speech and AntisemitismThe Undemocratic Electoral CollegeTrump and NATOCredit...Illustration…

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The Fallout From the College Presidents’ Antisemitism Testimony

More from our inbox: The Homeless Problem Persists on the SubwayJewish Women PlaywrightsThe Rare Hardship of a Rare NameThe University…

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At the risk of sounding mawkishly positive, I think I’ve discovered a cheap, simple fix for our fraying social, emotional…

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The Conversations About the War in Gaza We Ought to Be Having

The conflict in Israel and Palestine has thrown American campuses and society into turmoil. We are both deans of public…

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Columbia University Postpones a Fund-Raiser as Divisions Over War Deepen

Columbia has said it should be a space for “moral and intellectual conversations” about the Israel-Hamas war, but as those…

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