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Recent campus policy changes under the Trump administration “are cause for both marvel and caution,” write Baruch Weiss and Mark B. Rotenberg of Hillel. The two chart a middle course to navigate rapidly changing dynamics.sapirjournal.org/activism/2025/…

Recounting the history of activism that led to the founding of Brown University, President Christina H. Paxson calls for universities to provide “opportunities for students to learn about the full range of ways to effect change.”sapirjournal.org/activism/2025/…

Faced with a crisis after October 7, Brown’s ranks of Jewish alumni stepped in to support desperate students. Alumni leader Ellen Ginsberg Simon explains how they developed a five-pronged approach to effect lasting change.sapirjournal.org/activism/2025/…

With the help of activist entrepreneurs like Mehdi Yahyanejad, the Iranian people’s battle for democracy has taken on new dimensions since the rise of the internet and online news. Where does he see the movement heading?sapirjournal.org/activism/2025/…

While American Jews often consider their support for the civil rights movement as the golden age of modern Jewish activism, Maxim D. Shrayer (Максим Д. Шраер) draws lessons from a different history, one in which Jews were at the true center of a movement: Soviet refuseniks.sapirjournal.org/activism/2025/…

What a timely new issue from SAPIR on “Activism”

Could students’ appetite for defiant activism be the product of a messy web of psychological factors? Psychotherapist Malka Shaw lays out why the flimsy responses of many university administrators invited escalating attacks on campus over the past year.sapirjournal.org/activism/2025/…

“Some books improve with time. Others, written long ago, seem almost clairvoyant, as if they somehow projected themselves into our modern moment,” writes Jesse Tisch of Ben Hecht’s “A Guide for the Bedevilled.” What insights does it hold for today?sapirjournal.org/activism/2025/…

Earlier this month, Bret Stephens moderated the inaugural SAPIR Debate at 92NY, a discussion with Rahm Emanuel and Jason D. Greenblatt on the question “Is Donald Trump Good for the Jews?” Watch it now.youtube.com/watch?v=KHGwDB…

“The beginning of the end might start with an Israeli air raid,” wrote security analyst Reuel Marc Gerecht in a 2022 SAPIR piece about Iran. As Israel continues a wave of strikes, revisit his essay, “What Will Stop the Islamic Republic of Iran.”sapirjournal.org/aspiration/202…

In the most recent issue of SAPIR, Iranian dissident Mehdi Yahyanejad speculated on the future of the regime... ‘This Regime Is Naked’ Mehdi Yahyanejad sapirjournal.org/activism/2025/…

Join us Friday at 1pm for a briefing on what's happening between Israel and Iran with former Commander of U.S. Air Forces Central Command Lieutenant General Joseph Guastella & former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Dana Stroul. bit.ly/3SXiKkE

In last week's NYT, Jewish critic M. Gessen noted similarities between accusations of antisemitism today and accusations of dissidence in the USSR. Former Soviet dissident Maxim D. Shrayer (Максим Д. Шраер) remembers the lessons of dissidence too, and very differently. sapirjournal.org/war-in-israel/…

This Thursday, July 3 at 1:00 PM ET, join Iranian dissident and entrepreneur مهدی یحیی‌نژاد Mehdi Yahyanejad and author Roya Hakakian for “Views from the Iranian Diaspora,” a conversation moderated by SAPIR Institute Director Chanan Weissman. Register now.sapirjournal-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Earlier this week, SAPIR Editor-in-Chief Bret Stephens and Israeli journalist Amit Segal joined SAPIR Institute Director Chanan Weissman for a conversation on the merits and pitfalls of activist and objective journalism in the United States and Israel.podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s17…

In “Views from the Iranian Diaspora,” the latest SAPIR Conversation, Roya Hakakian and مهدی یحیی‌نژاد Mehdi Yahyanejad sat down with Chanan Weissman for a discussion on the future of Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Stream it now. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vie…

Last fall, Columbia student Elisha Baker argued that faculty power over leadership fuels protest chaos. On Friday, Columbia announced protest discipline will shift from the faculty-run University Senate to the provost’s office. sapirjournal.org/university/202…