The Syllabus

The Syllabus


Conor Friedersdorf, Writer for The Atlantic

October 26, 2023

On October 14, a week after Hamas’s attacks in Southern Israel, Conor Friedersdorf, a staff writer for The Atlantic, wrote an article entitled, “Students for Pogroms in Israel”; the sub-head was “By excusing murder and kidnapping, activist groups have already changed campus politics in America.” Conor joins Mark Oppenheimer to talk about how, exactly, he thinks campus politics have changed.


Guest: Conor Friedersdorf is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of the Up for Debate newsletter. Before joining The Atlantic in 2010, he was the features editor at Culture11 and a reporter for the Los Angeles News Group. He is the founding editor of The Best of Journalism, a newsletter devoted to exceptional nonfiction.