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“We recognize our role as visitors and, for many of us, colonizers. We camp on colonized Lenapehoking land…” “Respect personal boundaries.” “We want to ensure people feel comfortable in this space.”

The Columbia intifada is saturated with HR vibes. 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-…

Two Jewish students I interviewed at Columbia today gave me two very different accounts of what's been going on.

I believe the first student, who is a leader in the encampment and has been suspended by Columbia, sincere. But the footage/photos online cut against his account.

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What I saw and heard at Columbia, reporting for The New Statesman: There has been some vile sloganeering at Columbia (not all of it, but it's definitely there).

Still, the campus intifada of 2024 is not 1968 redux. Rather, it's:

1) a typical left jamboree, with all the

“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

The Columbia protesters are too wedded to the HR logic of the society against which they rebel.

It’s hard to imagine the likes of Daniel Cohn-Bendit in their heyday tsk-tsking: “We want to ensure people feel comfortable in this space.”

My latest. newstatesman.com/international-…

In his latest for COMPACT, Žižek commemorates Kant's 300th birthday by revisiting a question posed by Adorno, Horkheimer, and Lacan: 'Is there a line from Kantian ethics to the Auschwitz killing machine?'

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“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.

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Immanuel Kant's ethical rigorism leads to Marquis de Sade and the horrors of Auschwitz.

So argues Slavoj Zizek in COMPACT today, Kant's 300th birthday.

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Žižek's latest:
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An important, thoughtful set of considerations from Sohrab Ahmari

The Columbia protesters are too wedded to the HR logic of the society against which they rebel.

It’s hard to imagine the likes of Daniel Cohn-Bendit in their heyday tsk-tsking: “We want to ensure people feel comfortable in this space.”

My latest. newstatesman.com/international-…

Columbia's campus uprising - New Statesman 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-…