“All of Us” Aren’t Complicit in the Gaza War, but Barack Obama Is
The former president’s simplistic idea of “complexity.”
November 7, 2023
An open letter to the president of Harvard.
Yesterday, I linked to an essay about the problems of our universities—on which the current burst of anti-Israel agitation has shone a spotlight—by the scholar and writer Peter Berkowitz. Today, I’m sharing a very different, but complementary, perspective on the same subject by the hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman, who recently publicized an open letter he wrote to the president of Harvard. His letter deftly identifies the problems and offers some practical solutions:
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Get the fighters and rockets out.
An open letter to the president of Harvard.
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