The widespread protests against the war in Gaza across dozens of US university campuses, and the unprecedented crackdowns are a sign of a triple crisis: Of liberal democracy, of the university, and paradoxically, of anti-war protests as well. The protests are a sign of the crisis of liberal democracy in three ways. First, we should not forget that these protests have been occasioned by the fact that the American political system has been virtually immune to the catastrophic horror that is unfolding in Gaza, since Hamas’s barbaric attacks on Israel. Both America, which has the greatest leverage on Israel, and...