Trump’s Agenda to Hurt Higher Education

A few weeks after Donald Trump’s re-election, I found myself talking to an old friend at a higher-education conference overlooking the Capitol dome in Washington, D.C. The meeting had been organized by some elite research universities that were confounded by how the mood of Congress had turned so suddenly and violently against them. The friend, a Republican, had recently left a high-level job in education research. I asked him what, exactly, was going to happen next.

“We’re going to hit them on indirect,” he said. “We’re going to hit them on antisemitism and affirmative action and whatever else we can find.”

“Then what?” I asked. “You’re going to hurt them and hurt them and then they’ll … agree with you? Change their ways? Is that how you think things work?”

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