Alex Wagner

Like, let's just remember that principle is more valuable than money.

And the universities have endowments.

And this is like, this is the fight.

This is the existential fight for academic freedom.

Don't mistake it for anything but that Brown University.

You get a fail on this one.

That's how bad it's gotten.

Yeah.

You know, I think this is the sort of question we're all asking ourselves, those of us who are still asking.

It's like, where is everyone?

You know, and I think that there's a real profound fear.

I'm not going to say sinking suspicion, but I mean, where is everybody?

You know, you just…

rattled off a group of institutions that should be fighting this for their own self-interest.

Right.

But have decided that the money is just too easy to come by.

I don't know.

I mean, I think that the lower courts like hats off to them.

These are the guys that are, you know, to actually, we should say, like, for these federal district judges to do what they're doing and to be very clear and pointed in their criticism of this administration is not an easy thing to do because they know what's coming at them.

These judges are under threat.