Hippo campus articles

  • Listen To This: The View From Campus

    Kate is joined by HuffPost reporter Matt Shuham to talk about how the war in Gaza is refracting domestically, from college protests to presidential politics. Belaboring The Point is now on YouTube!
  • Sack the campus radicals

    For the time being, university authorities have lost patience with protesters disrupting campuses to demonstrate bigotry against Israel and solidarity with Hamas murderers. Some institutions such as the University of Florida did not let matters get out of hand and ordered suspensions as soon as the motley crew of terrorist cosplayers broke the rules. Others, Columbia University foremost among them, dithered […]
  • Lessons From Other Campus Protests

    The year was 1966 and Ronald Reagan was running for governor of California. A major part of his platform was to “clean up the mess at Berkeley” and other college campuses throughout the state that were experiencing protests and strikes over issues that included the military draft, civil rights and “women’s issues.” While not on a scale of the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel, anti-America and Jewish hatred we are witnessing now on several college campuses, Reagan’s response could instruct current college...