Universities Won’t Like What It Would Take to Truly Say No to Trump

Oped in Barron’s April 15 2025

“By now, it must have dawned on elite universities that the Trump administration’s campaign against them won’t end soon. Even if the administration moves on, private universities will remain under pressure as long as they depend on public funding and they maintain untenable rules governing campus speech.

“Fixing those problems would require changes that go far beyond what many universities would consider. Yet battles over restricting speech appear to pose an existential threat. The only path to real academic independence is for universities to shed their dependency on big money and institute true political neutrality—changes few universities have seriously contemplated.

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