Shaping the Narrative on “Decolonization”

How public opinion shifted on the pro-Hamas campus protests.

In politics, crisis often presents itself as bewilderment and confusion. The role of the intellectual is to explain what’s happening and shape public opinion toward a constructive end.

Such is the case with the recent pro-Hamas protests on university campuses. They emerged as a surprise. But the spectacle was rooted in an ideology—“decolonization,” or “p…