Another friend has wondered out loud where the students’ money is coming from. Pundits are also comparing today’s escalating protests with the student protests of the Vietnam war era. Commentators are asking whether something like the protests that roiled Chicago’s Democratic Convention in 1968 will upend the Democratic Convention of 2024 (also taking place in Chicago, coincidentally). To be sure, we need discernment if we are to judge today’s protests. First, since protest is a means to end, the end that protestors seek must be worthy and clearly stated.