Campus Riots and a Chicago Convention: Déjà Vu All Over Again?

Campus Riots and a Chicago Convention: Déjà Vu All Over Again?
Palestinian flags are handed out on the campus of the University of Chicago where students have established a tent encampment to show support for Palestinians in Gaza, in Chicago, Ill., on April 29, 2024. Scott Olson/Getty Images
Michael Barone
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As the philosopher and baseball player Yogi Berra once (supposedly) said, “it’s déjà vu all over again.” Student protesters are occupying campuses of famed universities across the country. In New York, Columbia University protesters occupied administrative offices in Hamilton Hall and were cleared out by police, exactly 56 years to the day after student protesters occupied and were thrown out of that building in 1968.

Michael Barone
Michael Barone
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Michael Barone is a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and longtime co-author of “The Almanac of American Politics.” His new book, “Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America’s Revolutionary Leaders,” is now available.