These are not the first students to become obsessed by an overseas war. A generation ago, the protests were about Iraq. A generation before that, Vietnam. A generation before that, Spain.

But something has changed. Student radicals were always angry, usually illogical, and often violent. What is new is their whiny hypersensitivity. Can you imagine anti-Vietnam activists complaining because the authorities were insufficiently respectful of someone’s banana allergy? Or demanding that the college authorities send them food?