Ryan D. Enos and Steven Levitsky
Harvard Crimson
Excerpt: Democracy is in greater peril today than at any time in modern U.S. history. President Donald Trump ran an openly authoritarian campaign in 2024, pledging to prosecute his rivals, punish media critics, and deploy the military to repress protest. Now, with stunning speed, he is doing just that.
Maggie Kelly
Inside UATX
Excerpt: Last week, UATX founding trustee Bari Weiss and Palantir CEO Alex Karp visited campus to discuss the failures of American education and the urgent need to build anew.
“Our educational institutions have really done us a disservice,” Karp said. “The primary disservice was somehow teaching people that it's better to believe in nothing than in something."
Kate Hidalgo Bellows
Chronicle of Higher Education
Excerpt: The Trump administration has sent its first notice to a college that it may take away federal funding.
A new federal task force on antisemitism will review more than $5 billion that Columbia University receives from the government, and will immediately consider imposing stop-work orders on $51.4 million in federal contracts that Columbia holds.
Hugh E. Brennan
October 12, 2023
There is a fundamental dishonesty at the core of this debate. The same people who decry parents who object to explicit sexual content bordering on pornography are perfectly willing to censor classic literature- Dr. Seuss comes to mind. I am certain they have no difficulty with the destruction of public memorial art- Confederate and otherwise.
Librarians control access to books by controlling what books are bought. How many copies of “Irreversible Damage” Abigail Shrier grace local library or university shelves?