Source: The UnPopulist
by Lindsie Rank
“The White House, no matter its occupant, has long meddled in campus speech. From post-9/11 scrutiny of faculty and student anti-war protestors to pressuring institutions to adopt an overly expansive definition of sexual harassment and punish subjectively offensive speech, every modern presidential administration has pressured campus discourse to serve political ends. But where past presidential administrations concealed this pressure through layers of bureaucracy, the Trump administration flaunts it. Its use of immigration law, federal grant funding, and thinly veiled — often cunningly vague — threats to colleges and universities is certainly the most brazen effort by a recent administration to bend the academy to its will.” (03/20/25)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-is-nuking-free-speech-in-the