Trump’s War on the Palestine Movement Is Something Entirely New Trump’s War on the Palestine Movement Is Something Entirely New
Never before has a government repressed its citizens’ free speech and academic freedom so brutally in order to protect an entirely different country.
Apr 17, 2025 / Saree Makdisi
The People Are Resisting While the Elites Are Surrendering The People Are Resisting While the Elites Are Surrendering
The Ivy League is silently complicit in Trump’s war on international students.
Apr 14, 2025 / Jeet Heer
9 Ways You Can Save the Internet Right Now 9 Ways You Can Save the Internet Right Now
Because the danger to cultural preservation has never been greater.
Apr 11, 2025 / Maria Bustillos
The Epidemic of Capitulation Suggests the Liberal Order Has Been Rotting From Within The Epidemic of Capitulation Suggests the Liberal Order Has Been Rotting From Within
What old-school civics taught us about checks and balances isn’t working. The absence of a will to fight, to defend the institutions of liberal democracy, is breathtaking.
Apr 8, 2025 / Jodi Dean for The Nation
Why Universities Must Start Litigating—and How Why Universities Must Start Litigating—and How
The litigation would afford schools a high-profile venue in which to detail the Trump administration’s lawlessness and aggression.
Apr 7, 2025 / David Pozen, Ryan Doerfler, and Samuel Bagenstos
Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump
The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy and its alleged failure to fight antisemitism.
Apr 3, 2025 / Ellen Schrecker
Texas Student Journalists Are Being Censored, but That Won’t Stop the Presses Texas Student Journalists Are Being Censored, but That Won’t Stop the Presses
On University of Texas campuses, students have found other ways of newsmaking that free their publications from editorial control by their schools and state.
Apr 2, 2025 / StudentNation / Aaron Boehmer
Trump’s Academic Purge Will Make America Stupid and Provincial Again Trump’s Academic Purge Will Make America Stupid and Provincial Again
The administration’s targeting of international students is a return to a disgraced tradition of xenophobic anti-intellectualism.
Mar 31, 2025 / Jeet Heer
Columbia Expelled Me for My Palestine Activism, but I Won’t Be Silenced Columbia Expelled Me for My Palestine Activism, but I Won’t Be Silenced
And neither will anyone else targeted by the university. We are not afraid, we are undeterred, and we will continue to fight.
Mar 26, 2025 / Grant Miner