There’s a bleak historical explanation for why Columbia’s capitulation to Trump is so concerning
There’s a long history of authoritarians cracking down on their country’s universities
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Fast Forward Columbia bans face masks in protests and acquiesces to other Trump administration demands
The changes are a bid to regain federal funding cut to penalize the school for its pro-Palestinian protests
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Fast Forward In jailhouse letter, Mahmoud Khalil urges renewed student pro-Palestinian protests
The protest leader from Columbia University says he is a “political prisoner” since being arrested by ICE last week
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Opinion Trump’s crusade against Columbia is ripped straight from Hungary’s anti-Soros playbook
Viktor Orbán went after a university founded by George Soros in ways that now look awfully familiar
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Opinion Is Mahmoud Khalil the new Emma Goldman?
A WWI-era attorney general exploited Goldman’s notoriety to target thousands of legal immigrants. Trump seems to be doing the same with Khalil.
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Opinion Voltaire knew what to say about would-be despots like Donald Trump
The Mahmoud Khalil affair calls to mind the anti-democratic excesses of the 18th century
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Experts had mixed feelings about Jelani Cobb cautioning foriegn students not to publish articles about Gaza or Ukraine
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