Time marches forward. In 2011, Croton-Harmon High School in New York decided to honor John Mearsheimer with its Distinguished Graduate Award. Josh Blumberg, then a senior at the school, was vexed by this. He had learned about Mearsheimer’s work when he was a member of “Write On For Israel,” The Jewish Week newspaper’s advocacy program for high school students. He complained in emails to the school superintendent, principal, vice principal and school board.

The school postponed the award indefinitely.

Then last November, Blumberg, now a student at University of Michigan, was home for Thanksgiving when he got upsetting news: Mearsheimer was granted the award after all!

Blumberg looked into the matter; and he has penned an article for the Jewish Week, “My effort to prevent John Mearsheimer from being honored,” that relates his post-award investigation: