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Tuesday, June 03, 2025

What are the White House's motives? Some observers detect the hand of JD Vance and the deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller. In 2022, Vance told Vanity Fair magazine: "I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left and turn them against the left. We need like a de-Baathification programme, a de-woke-ification programme."

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What comes after liberalism? From Notre Dame to Harvard, a group of prominent conservative scholars imagine a religious post-liberal future: chroni.cl/4dFjynR

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-- Chronicle of Higher Education (@chronicle.com) May 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM

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"Jason Johnson, a political scientist at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, said:

"Their goal is to intimidate and break down institutions of higher learning in America because that is where most of the resistance to their authoritarian tendencies is going to come from.

"They figure, if we can bankrupt Harvard, if we can embarrass Harvard, if we can put Harvard in a position of weakness or at least get them to bend the knee, then all the other institutions in America will follow. That's why they're doing this."

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Lemme just put this here. Perhaps one of our Trumpish rwingers will watch it and learn that they are not Conservatives at all.

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#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-01 05:09 PM | Reply

You can't hoodwink the educated. That's why.

#2 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-01 05:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Meanwhile in Texas, Florida and other Red states, college administrators will soon be wondering where all the international students went, and how come tuition income is so far short of that in previous years. The greatest minds in academia already know the answer, but dare not speak it...

#3 | Posted by catdog at 2025-06-03 08:13 AM | Reply

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