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How Not to Win Friends and Influence People: America’s Debt to the Pro-Palestinian Protesters

To all those student protesters who have helped expose the rot in some of our elite universities while rousing the spirit of American patriotism, thank you.
How Not to Win Friends and Influence People: America’s Debt to the Pro-Palestinian Protesters
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gather at the DePaul University Lincoln Park Campus in Chicago on May 5, 2024. Alex Wroblewski/AFP
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At a recent family get-together, I spoke with a 40-year-old nephew I hadn’t seen in several years. He works as a research scientist at a major university. We’d hardly said hello before he launched an attack on the doings of the pro-Palestinian mob at his school and in the city where he lives. Several times, I tried to get a word in, but then decided just to hush and let him charge full speed ahead.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.