The authoritarian endgame on higher education
- President Donald Trump is targeting higher education in a campaign to weaken institutions that challenge his narrative.
- On March 7, Trump's administration announced plans to cut $400 million in grants to Columbia University due to its insufficient response to campus antisemitism.
- Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia, was arrested, prompting concerns about free speech violations.
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'A political agenda aimed at reshaping higher education into an ideological stronghold'
'The targeting of Palestinian activism is merely an excuse' Faisal Kutty at Al Jazeera"The Trump administration's war on campus dissent" has hit Columbia hard, and the university "ultimately capitulated to the Trump administration's sweeping demands," says Faisal Kutty. "What started as speech restrictions and campus disciplinary actions has now evolved" into deportations and "outright interference in university affairs." The "endgame is not jus…

The authoritarian endgame on higher education
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