Benjamin VanWagoner

Oct 18, 2024 | publicbooks.org | Benjamin VanWagoner |Nancy A Khalil |Charlotte Rosen

At exactly 9 a.m, on April 22, 2024, I sent an email to the two sections of my Literature Humanities course at Columbia University: “Dear all,” it began, “I am so pissed at the unholy marriage of force and impotence [in] Columbia’s administration.

Oct 18, 2024 | publicbooks.org | David M. Chmielewski |Megan Cummins |Benjamin VanWagoner

One memory from the Princeton Gaza Solidarity Encampment, or more precisely one memory of its aftermath (though the very nature of this memory is to blur the distinction), has not left my mind. Following the removal of the encampment from Cannon Green, the central lawn on Princeton’s campus located right behind the main administrative building Nassau Hall (which campus tour guides like to proudly note was one briefly the nation’s capital), the university immediately fenced off the entire green.