This Isn’t Kent State—Yet

What the silencing of student protest says about the state of our democracy

It’s been 55 years since the National Guard opened fire on unarmed student protesters at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. Four were killed, nine injured, most of them teenagers. They were protesting a war. The country was divided. Leaders called them agitators. Schools called in the police. And before the dust had settled, a generation learned just…