🙊 First, Eliminate Dissent
The demolition of American higher ed
📡 On my Radar
American higher education is getting hit with a three-punch combo—and it's not an accident.
🤜🏽 Punch 1: Domestic enrollment keeps sliding. Students question the value, costs keep rising, and universities' growth-at-all-costs model is finally hitting reality.
🤜🏽 Punch 2: International students are getting systematically targeted. Over 4,700 student visas revoked since January. Universities are warning international students not to leave the country during breaks—they might not get back in.
🤜🏽 Punch 3: Research funding is getting slashed. The Trump admin’s proposing $18 billion in NIH cuts and $5 billion from NSF. Harvard has over $4 billion in frozen federal funding. Johns Hopkins is laying off 2,200 people after losing 40% of their revenue.
Universities are dangerous to autocrats: they establish truth, create critical thinkers, and breed dissent.
History shows the patte…
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