Politics and the University
Just as we cannot keep a sense of right and wrong out of the way we view the world, politics will always implicitly or explicitly determine the goals of our educational institutions by setting the mission of universities through a particular value orientation. Telos 207 explores the ways in which politics affect what happens at universities through the lens of both current academic research in China and the recent protests on U.S. campuses over the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the wake of October 7, 2023.
Introduction
David Pan
Is Communist China a New Type of Civilization? The Civilizational Argument in Contemporary Chinese Ideology
Alexander Lukin
Understanding Chinese Political Study: Historical and Fieldwork Political Study Revisited
Rongxin Li
Contemporary American Academe before and after October 7, 2023
Introduction to the Special Section on Contemporary American Academe before and after October 7, 2023: Uncritical Theory and Antisemitic Semiotics
Gabriel Noah Brahm
Palestine Avenue
Andrei S. Markovits
The End of the Academy as We Knew It
Andrew Pessin
In Our Name: A Message from Jewish Students at Columbia University
Eliana Goldin, Elisha Baker, Rivka Yellin, and Eden Yadegar
The Prospects for Higher Education after October 7
Russell A. Berman
The Return of the Two Cultures in the Israel–Hamas War Protests
Peter C. Herman
What Is Islamo-Leftism? Its Origins and Current Developments
Pierre-André Taguieff
Reforming Higher Education
David Pan
Postcolonial Activism: An Infantile Disorder
Julius Bielek
The Jewish Body and the Trans Community after October 7: A Tale of Misidentification
Corinne E. Blackmer
Stand Columbia
Michael S. Kochin
Why Palestinian Violence Fails
Alex Stein
