Petitions, Group Chats, and Resignations: Inside the Artist’s Fight to Stop the War on Gaza

In the spring of 1966, as college students protesting the Vietnam War organized teach-ins to educate their peers on the war, the poet Robert Bly knew they needed backup. “If you went to an audience [at that time],” he told an interviewer in 1970, “I’d say 90 percent would be in favor of the war and […]