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When Universities Stop Blushing: The Overton Window on Anti-Semitism

It's getting wider and moving left

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Apr 18, 2026
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There exists a concept in political discourse—bloodlessly termed the Overton window—which describes the range of ideas a society considers acceptable to express. One might think of it more simply as the invisible boundary between what can be said without consequence and what cannot. Outside the window lies the unthinkable; inside it, the merely controve…

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