campus life

Jewish Professors Grapple With Shifting Roles on Campus
In the face of rising antisemitism, college educators—especially in Jewish studies departments—face new expectations inside and outside the classroom
byTalia Elkin
Bracing Themselves to Go Back to School
After enduring a year of protests, encampments, and turmoil, college students return to campus uncertain what the year to come will hold
byThe Editors
The End of a School Year Like No Other
College students reflect on a year of fear, isolation, and poop tents
byThe Editors
Two Friends—One Jewish, One Muslim—Have an Answer to Campus Conflict
People have asked why our university did not disintegrate into chaos after Oct. 7. Here’s the reason.
byJennifer Brick MurtazashviliandAbdesalam Soudi
Actually, You Don’t Know That Much
The problem on campuses isn’t ‘wokeness’—it’s certainty
byIlana Redstone
The Case for Cautious Optimism
On campus and across America, there’s more room for conversation and discussion on race, conflict, and justice than often appears to be the case. Many young people just need to be taught the negative implications of seeing the world in a narrow or binary manner.
byIlana Redstone
The Sickness of Higher Ed
Campus Week: What college faculty and administrations should have done over the plague summer, and why we’re still not doing it
byMordechai Levy-Eichel
America’s New Sex Bureaucracy
How campus Title IX courts’ guilty-until-proven-innocent subversion of due process is a harbinger of a dangerous wider shift in liberalism
byWesley Yang
The High Priest of Heterodoxy
Jonathan Haidt’s early work attempted to explain the origins of our political differences. His new Heterodox Academy is looking for ways to move past them.
byDavid Mikics
Separate and Unequal for Jewish Groups on Campus
After the student government at the elite Williams College denied formal recognition to a pro-Israel group, the school’s president intervened
byKC Johnson
CUNY’s Anti-Semitism Problem and the Campaign to Fire Michael Goldstein
Is a Kingsborough Community College professor a racist or a victim of ‘academic mobbing’?
byArmin Rosen
Campus Week
It’s that time of year again: All week Tablet takes stock of the state of American academia and university life
byJacob Siegel
Attacking Hillel in Court, Open Hillel Takes Aim at Campus Jews and Anti-Discrimination Law
The progressive group says it seeks to make Hillel more inclusive. So why are they trying to help get it kicked off campuses, using legal arguments that would justify widespread discrimination against minorities?
byDavid Schraub
The Silencing of Pro-Israel Students on Campus
Campus anti-Israelism isn’t merely an attack on Israel, or even Jews in general. It is an attack on the very norms and values of the university—and with it, on the norms and values at the heart of Western civilization.
byAndrew Pessin and Doron Ben-Atar
Someone Tore Down the Mezuzah of UCLA’s Jewish Student President. Read Her Powerful Response.
“The fact that you felt the need to vandalize my office under the cover of darkness shows that you and your actions do not represent this community, which has no tolerance for your intolerance.”
byYair Rosenberg
Is the BDS Movement Failing? Depends on Your Definition of Success.
Israel’s haters on campus are less and less effective in stopping institutions from collaborating with the Jewish state, but increasingly good at making Israeli speakers feel unwelcome
byArmin Rosen
Title IX Campus Witch Hunts, According to Laura Kipnis
‘Unwanted Advances’ is a clarion call for accusatory university cultures gone mad
byDavid Mikics
American-Israeli Academic Collaboration Soars Despite Israel Boycott Efforts on Campus
A new study offers a reminder that radical anti-Israel advocates on campus are not nearly as influential as they are loud
byYair Rosenberg