Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains – and souls – need but that it’s easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and recommend just three links every week that you absolutely must see.
No fluff, no fuss, just three exceptional reads.
Here are this week’s recommendations:
Let us remember the last time students occupied Columbia University (Omar Barghouti, Tanaquil Jones and Barbara Ransby / The Guardian)
Young people are once again the conscience of the nation and the world. The current Columbia protests have been compared to those that shut down the campus in 1968 to protest against the Vietnam war. But there is another campus movement that is more recent and relevant.
What if Jens Söring Actually Did It? (Amanda Knox / The Atlantic)
I had been avoiding my friend Jens Söring for months. Whenever his emails arrived, I’d open a reply window and stare with dread at the blinking cursor. I no longer knew what to say to him, this man who had spent 33 years in prison for a double homicide he swore he didn’t commit.
Jens had been convicted of murder in 1990. I had been convicted of murder nearly 20 years later. But the parallels between our cases were striking.
It’s been a historic week with campus protests against the war in Gaza. Some thoughts on President Biden’s response: (Becky Anderson)
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