5LL #338: Columbia, Empire, Speech, Universities, Aesthetics
Columbia Expelled Me for My Palestine Activism, but I Won’t Be Silenced
Grant Miner, The Nation
And neither will anyone else targeted by the university. We are not afraid, we are undeterred, and we will continue to fight.
The Last Taboo
Patrick Blanchfield, n+1
We used to make real national security psychopaths in this country!
Guilt by Association
Shilpa Jindia, The Baffler
The lawsuit against National Students for Justice in Palestine capitalizes on liberal hesitations and the right’s authoritarian zeal to smear pro-Palestine activists as terrorists in the quest to extinguish their cause altogether.
Does Columbia Still Merit the Name of a University?
Rashid Khalidi, The Guardian
Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson.
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
Gareth Watkins, New Socialist
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.