Columbia 1968 and 2024
I was a student at Columbia in 1968. Today's protests look familiar, but not for the reasons you might think.
I've only witnessed one pitched battle in person, and it cured me of any wish to see another. It was not a firefight, like those taking place between American and Vietnamese armies halfway around the world. It was more like the battles described in the Iliad, at that time the first…
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