The U.S. Should Demand Accountability from Egypt
Giving Hamas a lifeline doesn’t serve Cairo’s interests.
September 19, 2024
What October 7 clarified.
Considering the current degraded state of American higher education, Yuval Levin looks back at the campus upheavals of the 1970s, when “the people running the university were gradually choosing to cooperate with the people who wanted to burn it down.” Yet while the revolutionaries who took over the institutions in the last quarter of the 20th century saw themselves as pioneers of free speech, the universities became increasingly censorious and intolerant—so much so that many conservative critics have come to see freedom of speech as the solution to these ills. But that’s not quite right, argues Levin:
Giving Hamas a lifeline doesn’t serve Cairo’s interests.
A problem Holocaust education won’t solve.
What October 7 clarified.
“Are these relatively drab-looking, strict people allowed to indulge in such colorful work?”
From Afghanistan to Washington, DC.
Considering the current degraded state of American higher education, Yuval Levin looks back at the campus upheavals of the 1970s, when “the people running the university were gradually choosing to cooperate with the people who wanted to burn it down.” Yet while the revolutionaries who took over the institutions in the last quarter of the 20th century saw themselves as pioneers of free speech, the universities became increasingly censorious and intolerant—so much so that many conservative critics have come to see freedom of speech as the solution to these ills. But that’s not quite right, argues Levin:
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