Inside the Fight Tearing Apart the Ivy League

August 11, 2025 1 min read

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Rose Horowitch
The Atlantic

Excerpt: The leaders of America’s elite universities are required, by the borderline-masochistic, semi-impossible nature of their job, to be skilled in the art of performative comity. 

So it was a bit of a shock when, at the end of an April panel discussion, Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber turned on the chancellors of Vanderbilt and Washington University in St. Louis, all but accusing them of carrying water for the Trump administration.

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Blair Perot
Blair Perot

August 15, 2025

It wild to see something vaguely honest and thoughtful and non-partisan in the Atlantic. Maybe they are going to try for reform there too.

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