Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, who was once a Reagan speechwriter and is now a dyspeptic critic of Donald Trump, infuriated leftists on Twitter this weekend with a column about her visit to the Columbia University campus to observe the pro-Hamas protests and attempt to interview some young protesters.
Noonan wrote she understood the youthful passion to protest, but these protesters all wore masks and didn’t want to engage with largely supportive media. She found this carried an air of menace…and cowardice. This was the passage that New York Times reporter Peter Baker passed around that fanned the fury:
I was at Columbia hours before the police came in and liberated Hamilton Hall from its occupiers. Unlike protesters of the past, who were usually eager to share with others what they thought and why, these demonstrators would generally not…
