The Israel-Hamas war has raged on for practically the entire academic year. In December, I wrote a column criticizing the USC administration’s response to the conflict. In the piece, I reprimanded the...

The war between Israel and Hamas has revealed potentially unseen levels of campus polarization concerning a single geopolitical issue. Student divisions have unveiled themselves along religious, cultural, and moral lines. Campus apologists for the unprovoked massacre and pogrom of October 7th have made their priorities clear: the ends justify the means. Hidden behind a faint shield of anticolonialism, students worldwide still cheer on the atrocity as mere freedom fighting.

Los Angeles, it is often observed, is a city of contrasts. A place famed for its celebrities and its street gangs, and where sunny days turn to neo-noir nights. On the streets near USC, you can find one of the most striking examples. Just a couple of blocks from the Romanesque Revival architecture and manicured lawns of campus lie tarpaulin tents pitched on concrete, ramshackle shelters to some of LA’s burgeoning population of rough sleepers...