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New CPOST national survey shows disturbing findings for universities on how Americans think about antisemitism on campus today

Mon., May. 12, 2025

New CPOST national survey shows disturbing findings for universities on how Americans think about antisemitism on campus today. Findings suggest that universities, especially our leading universities, need much more ambitious efforts to clarify campus rules and show that the recommendations from the growing number of reports and actions to reduce campus unrest while maintaining high standards of free speech are being implemented in productive ways for all students on campus to flourish.

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Pape in NYT: What the Glorification of Luigi Mangione Reveals About America

Thu., Dec. 12, 2024

CPOST Director Rober Pape appeared on the New York Times podcase "The Opinion," on December 12, 2024, drawing on his research on political violence to contextalize the danger posed by the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO BrianThompson. Pape argued the shooting was "a threshold-breaking attack, setting a precedent." The broad outpooring of support for the shooter and expressions of anger combine to increase the risk of similar attacks in the future. "There’s no doubt: There is anger at our health care system. There’s anger at our corporations. The question is, what is the right way to express that anger? Is it through violence, or is it through politics? I would say we should be directing that political anger away from political violence and redirect it toward politics and voting. The ballot box, not guns, is the right way to settle disputes in America." Read podcast transcript here.

Robert Pape in Foreign Affairs: The American Style of Political Violence

Mon., Sep. 23, 2024

CPOST Director Robert Pape explains why the upcoming election is not only the most consequential in our lifetimes, but also the most dangerous, in his latest article published in Foreign Affairs.

"But all this commentary overlooks the predominant structural dynamic driving the new era of violence....The principal danger to the United States is not any out-of-control technology or fringe militia group. It is not economic grievances run amok. It is not even Trump, who is as much a symptom of what ails the United States as he is a cause. Instead, the greatest source of danger comes from a cultural clash over the nature of the United States’ identity—one with profound implications for who gets to be a citizen. Its key actors are not isolated radicals but large numbers of ordinary Americans."

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