In his famous Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky set forth a strategy: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

In his latest Bastiat’s Window post, Bob Graboyes says that we should borrow from Alinsky with regard to higher education. The target he picks is his alma mater, Columbia.

He writes, “With antisemitism blooming at so many American universities, it is impractical to try attacking the phenomenon everywhere all at once. It is better to choose one prestigious university, inflict as much pain as possible on that lone institution, and . . . [leave] all of them to wonder which university is second on the list.”

Columbia is a good place to start because it’s “in New York City—the world’s leading media market. No doubt, that geographic locale has contributed to the school’s outsized prominence in the current wave of on-campus pogroms. Any blowback falling on Columbia as a result of its moral collapse will also attract blaring coverage by the press and/or by the denizens of social media. The school’s locale will guarantee maximum publicity as the school’s reputation crumbles, brick by brick.”

One way to do it is to starve the beast — stop the inflow of donations and government funding. Another, particularly good one is this: “Drop Congressional subpoenas on one Columbia official after another, subjecting each of them to brutal questioning before the harsh glare of television cameras.”

The important thing is, it can be done.