An art exhibition about the veil, veiled

"Woke Taliban" is a ridiculous contradiction in te-

At this rate I'd be wealthier than Elon Musk pretty soon, though.¹

A Macalester College art exhibit reopened Monday after a brief closure to address concerns from Muslim students.

It’s the second time in recent months that Muslim students at private liberal arts colleges in St. Paul have raised objections to art displayed on their campus. Both artists, born 700 years apart, have roots in Persian culture. At Hamline University, a student objected to a medieval painting of the Prophet Muhammad; at Macalester, students criticized contemporary depictions of Muslim women.

But the dispute at Macalester, an elite college with a focus on internationalism, has so far played out differently than a similar controversy at Hamline, a mile-and-a-half away.

This university, to its credit, didn’t railroad any adjunct professors out of a job. Instead, it went for more of, shall we say, an Ashcroftian solution: