Todd Gitlin

The new Jewish mission

Feeling the shock-waves from Israel.

An unsettling silence

Given how consequential the bill signed Tuesday by President Obama may be, it’s striking to me how muted the campus response is.

Echoes of 1968

In 1976, on a visit to Columbia, I was surprised to spot, on a wall of the Journalism building abutting college walk, the spectral remains of the spray-painted initials “sds.” Thirty years on, thos