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Robert Cohen

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A Way to Honor the Teach-in Movement at 60

It’s time for another national teach-in movement.

by Robert Cohen via Inside Higher Ed on March 21, 2025
The Free Speech Movement at Sixty and Today’s Unfree Universities

Can speech be free when billionaires buy influence on campus?

by Robert Cohen via Academe on December 4, 2024
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Politicians Dictating What Teachers Can Say About Racism Can Be Dangerous

College student essays from 1961 underscore why our current trajectory could be devastating.

by Robert Cohen via Made By History on February 3, 2022
‘Tin Soldiers and Nixon’s Coming’

The shootings at Kent State and Jackson State at 50 years later.

by Robert Cohen, Michael Koncewicz via The Nation on May 4, 2020

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Statue of Stonewall Jackson, on its side in slings and propped up by tires, in front of its graffiti-covered pedestal.

What the 1619 Project Got Wrong

It erases the fact that, for the first 70 years of its existence, the US was roiled by intense, escalating conflict over slavery – a conflict only resolved by civil war.

by James Oakes via Catalyst on December 17, 2021

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