Only briefly touched on here, but just as important as what's happening in the US, is
why it's happening. This does not get enough attention.
The stated reasons, such as to "coerce universities to change their internal policies to align with the administration's priorities," understate things.
The real objective is to strip independent scientific institutions of their authority and to subordinate knowledge production to political and religious ideology.
Yes, religious ideology. If this sounds crazy; if you do not think this is happening; or if this sounds scary to you -- then you should go read up on Russell Vought and what his publicly stated objectives are. He is behind all of this. I doubt that Donald Trump knows or cares about any of it.
What is happening is absolute, complete insanity. And it has nothing to do with wokeness, antisemitism, DEI, waste, fraud, and abuse, or any of the other pretexts the Administration is using today.
