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Adam Harris

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Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

It should be.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

It should be.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

I do, because we've seen institutions in the last few years be pushed into these policies that say that... These policies where they say they won't make public statements about political events, right? In Ohio, in that bill, it said that public colleges can't make statements about partisan or ideological statements outside of celebrations of, like, the United States and the flag, right?

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

I do, because we've seen institutions in the last few years be pushed into these policies that say that... These policies where they say they won't make public statements about political events, right? In Ohio, in that bill, it said that public colleges can't make statements about partisan or ideological statements outside of celebrations of, like, the United States and the flag, right?

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

I do, because we've seen institutions in the last few years be pushed into these policies that say that... These policies where they say they won't make public statements about political events, right? In Ohio, in that bill, it said that public colleges can't make statements about partisan or ideological statements outside of celebrations of, like, the United States and the flag, right?

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

Like, really sort of jingoistic, patriotic statements. And... Pushing back doesn't have to look like being โ€“ like a president being out in the streets. But it does look like reaffirming your institutional principles and living up to your institutional principles, right? Because a principle is only a principle when it's tested, right? And a belief is only โ€“ you only actually have a value in like โ€“

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

Like, really sort of jingoistic, patriotic statements. And... Pushing back doesn't have to look like being โ€“ like a president being out in the streets. But it does look like reaffirming your institutional principles and living up to your institutional principles, right? Because a principle is only a principle when it's tested, right? And a belief is only โ€“ you only actually have a value in like โ€“

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

Like, really sort of jingoistic, patriotic statements. And... Pushing back doesn't have to look like being โ€“ like a president being out in the streets. But it does look like reaffirming your institutional principles and living up to your institutional principles, right? Because a principle is only a principle when it's tested, right? And a belief is only โ€“ you only actually have a value in like โ€“

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

make public that value when that value is under attack. And so if higher education doesn't believe in the principles that it was founded on, then institutional leaders should remain silent. But if they do, then there's a kind of obligation there. It's one of the reasons why they get paid so much.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

make public that value when that value is under attack. And so if higher education doesn't believe in the principles that it was founded on, then institutional leaders should remain silent. But if they do, then there's a kind of obligation there. It's one of the reasons why they get paid so much.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

make public that value when that value is under attack. And so if higher education doesn't believe in the principles that it was founded on, then institutional leaders should remain silent. But if they do, then there's a kind of obligation there. It's one of the reasons why they get paid so much.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

I don't know if it's a fully fleshed out view, but they have pointed to certain institutions and said, this is what it could look like. Those institutions are Hillsdale College, the College of the Ozarks. You know, I actually went to the College of the Ozarks when Pete Hegseth was speaking.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

I don't know if it's a fully fleshed out view, but they have pointed to certain institutions and said, this is what it could look like. Those institutions are Hillsdale College, the College of the Ozarks. You know, I actually went to the College of the Ozarks when Pete Hegseth was speaking.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

I don't know if it's a fully fleshed out view, but they have pointed to certain institutions and said, this is what it could look like. Those institutions are Hillsdale College, the College of the Ozarks. You know, I actually went to the College of the Ozarks when Pete Hegseth was speaking.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

And there was this really, you know, a sort of telling quote that he gave during his speech was just like, you know, I went to Harvard, I went to, you know, the Ivy League institution. Those places have lost their way. This is the sort of place that's doing it right, right? This is the future. And you look across the student body, it's... majority white and not even like a slim majority.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

And there was this really, you know, a sort of telling quote that he gave during his speech was just like, you know, I went to Harvard, I went to, you know, the Ivy League institution. Those places have lost their way. This is the sort of place that's doing it right, right? This is the future. And you look across the student body, it's... majority white and not even like a slim majority.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

And there was this really, you know, a sort of telling quote that he gave during his speech was just like, you know, I went to Harvard, I went to, you know, the Ivy League institution. Those places have lost their way. This is the sort of place that's doing it right, right? This is the future. And you look across the student body, it's... majority white and not even like a slim majority.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

It's students who, when I spoke to them, talked more about the idea of it being a A place where they could go and not have to have a ton of loans on the back end of going to college. But it was also a place that has โ€“ it's the only college in the country with a vice president of patriotic activities.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

It's students who, when I spoke to them, talked more about the idea of it being a A place where they could go and not have to have a ton of loans on the back end of going to college. But it was also a place that has โ€“ it's the only college in the country with a vice president of patriotic activities.

Radio Atlantic
Why Trump Wants to Control Universities

It's students who, when I spoke to them, talked more about the idea of it being a A place where they could go and not have to have a ton of loans on the back end of going to college. But it was also a place that has โ€“ it's the only college in the country with a vice president of patriotic activities.