My book Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech was in its final edits and in the post-writing stage when Donald Trump was inaugurated into office for a second time. If I were still writing it today, I would need to dedicate new chapters to detailing another malignant censorship threat on American campuses: not the impositions by foreign powers, but the conduct of our own federal government.
In a post earlier this week I cited some of the illiberal and, in some cases, unconstitutional incursions by the Trump administration onto the First Amendment in the past few months. Some of the most disturbing violations, though, have targeted our institutions of higher education.
