30 November 2023
Are Jewish students in danger?
Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Daniel Bessner, and Tyler Austin Harper debate whether Jewish students are right to feel unsafe on campus.
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In this video:
- The state of campus speech after 10/7
- Daniel: Why are critics of cancel culture silent when it comes to Israel?
- “Explaining” Hamas vs. “excusing” Hamas
- Tyler: American Jewish students worried about their safety have been primed by modern identity politics
- The tension between DEI and antisemitism response teams
- The linguistic ambiguity of “From the river to the sea”
- The irreconcilable conflict between campus social justice and donor funding
- If not liberalism, then what?
- Tyler: Postwar political conservatism is coming apart
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