It’s the first time the police have been invited onto Columbia’s campus since 1968. Like 1968, 2024 may go down as an inauspicious year for university administrations trying to defend the indefensible.
Bruce Robbins is the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia. His books include Cosmopolitanisms, co-edited with Paulo Horta, and The Beneficiary.
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