On this topic, I think a lot of those people attacking higher education over the past decade might wish to consider whether they have, perhaps inadvertently, created an environment in which hostile actors are now trying to create conditions for Harvard similar to those in Hungary or Turkey.
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Ben Ansell
Well worth reading not only Harvard’s robust response but the lengthy list of freewheeling demands the administration has made of them, including what can only be called creating new faculty lines explicitly for MAGA conservatives. No university could ever accept such demands and remain free.
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As for you, come back when you’re out of short trousers, have some perspective and understand causation.
What’s going on in the US is an iteration of things in the recent past: policing student activity & opinion, creating unpersons for the “wrong” views, decrying…