Crackdowns Calm Campus Protests

A Columbia student reports that the Oct. 7 anniversary protests were smaller and less incendiary than the past two years and attributes the change to Trump-era campus measures. He argues that illiberal tools can paradoxically preserve reasonable discourse by curbing disruptive activism. — This frames a tradeoff—order through coercion versus expressive liberty—that could reshape how universities, courts, and the federal government balance protest rights and campus functioning.