One might have thought the campus chaos that followed Oct. 7, 2023, would force a moment of academic sobriety.
After the massacre in Israel, the country watched elite universities descend into moral confusion — students chanting slogans they barely understood, administrators hiding behind procedural evasions, and faculty members serving not as guides but as accelerants. The congressional hearings that followed did not merely embarrass higher education. They revealed something deeper: The line between scholarship and activism had been blurred beyond recognition.
And yet much of the academy appears to have learned nothing.
