The Continuing War on Science

BY HANK REICHMAN The headlines tell the tale:  “Trump Policies Push 75% of Scientists to Consider Leaving U.S.;”  “More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science.”  But it’s less a new story than a continuation of an old one, for the Trump regime’s war on science dates back at least…

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Collection of logos for the Coalition for Action in Higher Ed, the AAUP, HELU, the Debt Collective, AAUP Local 6741, Common Notions, the Faculty for Justice in Palestine Network, Historians for Peace and Democracy, the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education, Palestine Legal, Jewish Voice for Peace, AFT Oregon, Pocothought, the Middle East Studies Association, the American Comparative Literature Association, and Scholars for Social Justice

April 17: A Day of Action

BY ANNA MCCARTHY Academic life has never been more precarious. The Trump administration’s attack on research, on free speech, and on student activism—an attack on the core ideals of the university—builds on decades of economic and political assault on the higher education workforce. Weakening faculty governance has long been the goal of boards of trustees.…

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Faculty Letter Calls for Interuniversity Defense of Higher Education

BY FACULTY LETTER ORGANIZERS The open letter discussed below originated after a group of faculty began to share notes about how their universities were handling the challenges presented by the Trump administration and about the apparent lack of communication or coalition building across institutions. In response to escalating federal attacks on higher education, a national…

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A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia

POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following extraordinary statement was published today in the New York Review of Books and is reposted here with their permission.  The statement’s signatories include virtually every leading First Amendment scholar in the country, conservative and liberal.  Among the signatories are Eugene Volokh and Michael McConnell, arguably the two most prominent…

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