The Nyu Clown Show

If history repeats itself first as tragedy and then as farce, NYU is looking like a clown college right now.

A group that calls itself Students for Radical Change has barricaded itself in the third cafeteria of the campus student center in a lame attempt to update the far-left's "glory days" of 1968 campus occupations. Even the campus Democrats have disavowed their overheated hysteria, which is perfectly illustrated in their list of demands, passed out on a Xeroxed pamphlet and viewable here.

This is a classic text of cluelessness and cultural myopia. From the first "demands" – essentially asking for amnesty and payment for the employees they have displaced – to the larger geopolitical aims (excess supplies sent to the University of Gaza, a "reassessment of the recently lifted ban on Coca-Cola products") – this is an impotent entitlement mentality run amuck.

It's a reminder of why the PC-excesses of the campus left has always been the unwitting ally and best recruiter for campus conservatives.