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How Long Can America’s Colleges and Universities Survive Trump’s ‘Chaos Tax’?
- The Trump administration escalated a multi-pronged assault on elite U.S. Universities including visa bans and accreditation threats in 2023-2024.
- This campaign stemmed from alleged failures to address antisemitism, race-based programs, and policies viewed as politically biased, fueling a broader backlash.
- Harvard faced visa suspensions, federal investigations into over 104 institutions, and a congressional proposal to raise its endowment tax from 1.4% to 21%.
- Mr. Trump said, "Harvard has got to behave themselves" and called the university "very antisemitic," reflecting his administration's combative stance.
- These measures risk weakening America’s global leadership in academia as international students seek alternatives and universities curb hiring amid uncertainty.
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Trump’s Absurd War on Education
The US is at war. It has always been at war. Whether a world war, a proxy conflict, an armed intervention, a psyop, or a regime change mission, the United States has not enjoyed a single moment of true, unadulterated peace. And it’s not just at war with nations abroad. The US is also at war with itself. Positive peace is not just the absence of violence, but also the absence of oppression. In all the years of this country’s existence, oppression…
Students can always paralyze the institutions in which they are formed. It is enough for them to occupy the facilities. Those who start their political career thus call such actions “takes”. Thus they acquire a heroic connotation, which seduces the youth. It would be the equivalent of participating in the “take” of the Bastille or the Morro de Arica. But one thing is to paralyze one institution, and another is to make it advance. Universities, u…
CHRONIC. Cultural War, Season 2: Harvard becomes the inner enemy of a Trump administration more radical than ever.
Harvard Medical School renames its diversity office, removes content from recruitment website - The Boston Globe
The actions come as Harvard is locked in an fierce and costly battle on multiple fronts with the Trump administration, which is pressing universities and industries to abandon diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
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