campus protests

Like student protesters today, Martin Luther King Jr. and other 1960s civil rights activists were criticized as disruptive and disorderly.

The response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene.

The university where 13 student protesters were killed or injured during the Vietnam War era worries that other schools have learned nothing from its history.

Universities spent years saying that activism is not just welcome but encouraged on their campuses. Students took them at their word.

Mark Rudd says a lot has changed in half a century, but not the reason college kids paralyze a campus.

Despite frequent litigation, U.S. courts have created a blurry line that puts administrators in an impossible situation.

Throughout the 1960s and 70s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, courts, and police.

It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.

A 1968 student uprising at the Tuskegee Institute married practical demands with political vision.

The famous activist reflects on what radicals like him got right and got wrong, and what today’s socialists should learn from his experiences.

The deadly episode stood for a bitterly divided era. Did we ever leave it?

At a peaceful protest of Confederate imagery in the school in 1970, dozens of students were arrested, suspended, and the remainder expelled.

Fifty years ago, faculty and students at MIT grappled with how scientists should take a stand against the Vietnam War.

The struggle at universities was never a simple conflict of generations.

In April 1968, students took over campus buildings in an uprising that caught the world’s attention. Fifty years later, they reflect on what went right and what went wrong.

From Dow to now.

While some of the worst behavior has come from local and state police, university police have shown themselves to be just as capable of brutality.

The repressive machine currently arrayed against campus protests follows a familiar pattern.

When speech offends, who decides where boundaries should be drawn?

Forty years ago, the exiled South African activist dared to teach Zionism critically. A furious backlash ensued.