The New Face of Academic Freedom?
Starting in Columbia University and rolling out across the country and beyond, college students organized in Spring 2024 to demand ceasefire, transparency, and halts to arms transfers to Israel. With…
The Time for Pious Words is Over
Against the unrelenting backdrop of Gaza, The Link issue 57.2 asks, "Where are the voices of the American churches...?" Baptists, Catholics, Evangelicals and Anglicans have all been challenged by the…
Ceasefire Now…Silence = Death
We solicited past Link authors (among others) for abbreviated reflections on the "Day After" the assault on Gaza ends. Contributions come from academics, clerics, former US military, concert musicians, MDs.…
Woman, Life, Freedom
Woman, Life, Freedom: Resistance in Iran one year after the murder in custody of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini. George Mason scholars frame the issue. Sumud and devastation in Gaza, from…
AIPAC, Dark Money, and the Assault on Democracy
From the Editor American conversations about the Middle East too often get short-circuited by the simple, seemingly casual admonition, “It’s complicated…” Lobbed in through the transom, this friendly advice squelches…