[Takatoshi Ito] The innocent bystanders of college protests
In 1968, protests against the Vietnam War swept through American college campuses and, in some cases, turned violent. At Columbia University, student protesters were angry about several issues, as James Simon Kunen chronicled in “The Strawberry Statement,” a series that first ran in New York magazine and was later published as a book. The protesting students opposed Columbia’s ties with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a think tank researching war strategy, and the universit
May 21, 2024