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A Jewish student looks at an anti-Israel encampment at Columbia University.
A Jewish student looks at an anti-Israel encampment at Columbia University in New York City on April 25, 2024. Photo by Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images.
Observation

September 14, 2025

Free E-Book: A College Guide for the Perplexed

By The Editors

Leading thinkers confront the crisis of anti-Semitism and anti-Western ideology on campus—and explore how America’s universities might yet be renewed.

For many decades, American universities have been drifting ever further away from their fundamental purposes. Where the academy should have been devoted to open inquiry, the search for truth, and educating students in the best of our civilizational inheritance, these institutions instead cultivated noxious ideas that have led to the West’s decline.

This trend accelerated in the early 2010s and was laid bare after the October 7 attacks, when we witnessed students and faculty around the country—particularly at Ivy League institutions—celebrate the slaughter of Jews as the “liberation” of the Palestinians.

With so many once august schools now exposed as morally confused, how should committed Jews and patriotic Americans respond?

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