https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/opinion/trump-higher-education.html
"Almost three months into the Trump administration’s war on universities, and a
year and a half into the Republican Party’s organized campaign against the
presidents of top colleges, it is clear that antisemitism and D.E.I. are mere
pretexts for these attacks. Like much of what this administration does, the war
on higher education is driven by anti-intellectualism and greed. Trump is
building a mafia state, in which the don distributes both money and power.
Universities are independent centers of intellectual and, to some extent,
political power. He is trying to destroy that independence.
There is a way for universities to fight back. It requires more than refusing
to bend to Trump’s will, and it requires more than forming a united front. They
must abandon all the concerns — rankings, donors, campus amenities — that
preoccupy and distract them, and focus on their core mission: the production
and dissemination of knowledge. Intellectuals have adopted this strategy to
fight against autocrats in other countries. It works."
Via Dave Farber
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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