Columbia University

The real legacy of the 1968 turmoil was the idea that young people and students had the obligation to challenge authority, to question assumptions... and could succeed.

OK, here we go with Part 2 of my annual McLaughlin Awards. Last week's column covered the first half of these awards. Unfortunately (as of this writi...

Just as scarf and hat weather hit Wednesday in New York, five Columbia University students gathered on the main campus lawn, pitched three tents, and ...

Whatever happened on Columbia's campus was no such hate crime, regardless of what the rope symbolizes.

Racial hoaxes almost always fall apart but they work for a time because they play hard on the stereotypes, myths, and fears about blacks and Latinos.

Bollinger's defense of Israel, while passionate, was weak, because he didn't have the intellectual discipline to really think out the reason that Ahmadinejad's diatribes resonate in the Muslim world.

Columbia University, by inviting Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak, has shown confidence in the wisdom and adultness of their students and our republic.

It is time for the world to boldly declare the clarion call of a new generation: no tolerance for intolerance.

Engagement without appeasement is the only way to peacefully resolve our differences. Now is not the time to isolate Iran -- isolation is what got Iran into this mess in the first place.

If Ahmadinejad wasn't afforded the opportunity to speak, and to offer up more inflammatory remarks, then the right would be without this easy ammunition in its ongoing campaign to invade Iran.

The people should be the front line in guarding our right to create our own educated foreign policy, engage the world, and avoid against another idiotic neoconservative war.

Not only should Abu El-Haj have the freedom to critique Israeli archaeology, but, as anyone who has read the book critically would understand, Facts on the Ground does not center on blanket critique.