Source: Washington Post
by Megan McArdle
“The left [sic], not the right, picked this fight. Too many institutions set themselves up as the ‘Resistance’ to Trump and tried to make a lot of mainstream political opinions anathematic, while expecting to be protected from backlash by principles such as academic freedom that they were no longer honoring. This was politically naive and criminally stupid for institutions that rely so heavily on U.S. taxpayer support. Academia at least should have known better, given that it has entire departments devoted to studying how politics works.” (02/24/25)