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Yacoub’s defiance seems to transfer directly into Adam, whose worldview has been upended.

Sometimes, our worldview is little more than circumstantial, something we cling to to protect ourselves or others from harm.

In a 2020 essay for the Catholic magazine The Lamp, Vance wrote candidly about his spiritual turn, describing his need for a worldview that could account for both personal responsibility and structural injustice.

“The result is a shift in worldview, and in identity.”

Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil and Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk have become national symbols for the Trump administration’s harsh crackdown on free speech on college campuses and on vulnerable people espousing ideas at odds with the administration’s worldview.