I returned to New York on the night the Columbia University administration called in the police a second time to clear anti-war protesters from the campus. In succumbing to media panic and pressure from right-wing politicians and perhaps some donors as well, President Minouche Shafik demonstrated yet again, that despite an impressive résumé, she is not up to the job of leading a university.

Here at The Nation, our editors and writers, as well as our StudentNation correspondents, have been putting in long days and nights covering this crisis on campuses across the country. But as Amy Littlefield’s cover story on underground abortions illustrates, students aren’t the only ones defying unjust authority. We seem to be in the midst of a season of revolt.

All the more reason to savor Spring Books, which features Sam Adler-Bell’s meditation on how the Bernie Sanders generation is coping with burnout; Nicolas Medina Mora on Gabriel García Márquez’s final novel; Sarah Schulman on Keith Haring and the downtown art revolution; Tope Folarin on Vinson Cunningham’s new novel of faith, politics, and Obama; Edna Bonhomme on Leslie Jamison and the travails of the millennial divorce; Stephanie Burt on the science fiction of Joanna Russ; and Elias Rodriques on the radical histories and art of Nell Irvin Painter.

It was Yeats who lamented in his day, “The best lack all conviction / while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” That clearly doesn’t apply to the current generation, who seem remarkably sane—if appropriately passionate about injustice. Take a look at our coverage—we think you’ll agree.

-D.D. Guttenplan

Editor, The Nation

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