The Trump administration's war on universities highlights a broader strategy of anti-intellectualism and greed. This campaign, veiled under concerns like antisemitism and DEI, seeks to erode the independent power that universities hold. By threatening financial penalties and exploiting individual vulnerabilities, Trump aims to coerce compliance and disrupt potential coalitions. For universities to combat these assaults, they must focus on their primary mission of knowledge dissemination, setting aside distractions like rankings and donor influences, a strategy that has proven effective against autocrats worldwide.
Trump employs financial threats to coerce universities into compliance, mirroring his transactional approach in other realms, creating a division among institutions.
The assault on higher education represents an anti-intellectual push, with the Trump administration using antisemitism and D.E.I. as mere pretexts for its campaigns.
To withstand attacks, universities must prioritize their mission of knowledge creation over rankings and donor influence, learning from global intellectual resistance against autocrats.
By targeting individual universities with financial penalties, Trump aims to undermine coalitions and solidarity among higher education institutions.
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