Columbia University hasn’t seen a student movement as intense as the one currently engulfing campus since 1968. Students opposed to the Vietnam War — as well as the school’s encroachment into Morningside Heights and other issues — occupied Hamilton Hall and the president’s office, and the NYPD responded in violent fashion. James Simon Kunen was among them, and his 1969 book The Strawberry Statement, which Kunen wrote as a 19-year-old sophomore...