Sohrab Ahmari
@SohrabAhmari
Founder and editor, @compactmag_. "American Affairs" columnist, @NewStatesman.
Author, most recently, TYRANNY, INC.
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http://Compactmag.com 23-01-2012 23:09:31
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The Columbia campus intifada is not some revolutionary threat.
On the contrary, it’s by venting built-up pressures of this kind that democratic states like the US stabilise the social order.
What I saw on campus, for The New Statesman newstatesman.com/international-…
“If you hear me, clap once. If you hear me, clap twice.” Her announcements gave the impression of a typical lefty jamboree: “Please bring toothpaste, we don’t have much, and we want clean teeth.” Sohrab Ahmari Thank you for bringing sanity, humor, and wits to the reporting
“We recognize our role as visitors and, for many of us, colonizers. We camp on colonized Lenapehoking land…”
What I saw and heard at the Columbia pro-Palestine encampment.
My latest The New Statesman, in the upcoming print issue.
newstatesman.com/international-…
The Columbia campus intifada is not some revolutionary threat.
On the contrary, it’s by venting built-up pressures of this kind that democratic states like the US stabilise the social order.
What I saw on campus, for The New Statesman newstatesman.com/international-…