Have Our Universities Turned Into an Ideological Monoculture?

This is a stark reminder that what is taught (or not taught) in the universities today is played out on the streets tomorrow.

Protesters at Fordham University in New York, on May 1, 2024. Enrico Trigoso/The Epoch Times

Commentary

How does one explain the pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas campus protests against Israel sprouting up around the country? After Oct. 7, 2023, attention was fixed on Harvard. On Dec. 5, 2023, when the three college presidents testified before Congress, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology became the focus. Recently, Columbia has become an epicenter. And now, encampments and protests have spread to more than 50 college and university campuses.