I am glad he got to socialize while in jail, but enduring a three-hour stint with a dozen of your closest pals does not make you Nelson Mandela. Hunger strikes, for example, only persuade others if you bear your cross humbly and solemnly; if you can give your beliefs some heft, proving your commitment to your cause via abstention; if you can endure some legitimate hardship in solidarity with those who are forced to live that way every day.

Otherwise, you simply look like a petulant child in need of a good shower.

Of course, this is one campus saga. But it's a pattern that's played out at elite campuses since Hamas' October 7 massacre: 30 Harvard students endured a whole 12-hour hunger strike last month (in solidarity with a group of 17 Brown students who actually logged a whole eight days, though two caved mid-strike). Other students have engaged in campus shout-downs, and counter-demonstrators at the University of California, Berkeley, broke down doors trying to end an event organized by Jewish students.

These are some of the same students who want amnesty for their loans. But it's past time for students to get back to work and for colleges to bring prices down. What's currently happening on elite campuses is not something this taxpayer wants to subsidize.