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Professors Are Changing What They Teach, Even Far from Trump's Gaze
Reposted by Kevin M. Kruse
https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Karl Jacoby
@karl-jacoby.bsky.social
Should just call this article "The Fascists are Succeeding in their Efforts to Muzzle Academia"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/us/professors-change-teaching-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TlA.ic7r.zPTH9-vpVgz0&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Professors Are Changing What They Teach, Even Far from Trump’s Gaze
www.nytimes.com
7:13 AM · Mar 16, 2026
@karl-jacoby.bsky.social
Should just call this article "The Fascists are Succeeding in their Efforts to Muzzle Academia"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/us/professors-change-teaching-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TlA.ic7r.zPTH9-vpVgz0&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Professors Are Changing What They Teach, Even Far from Trump’s Gaze
www.nytimes.com
7:13 AM · Mar 16, 2026
Should just call this article "The Fascists are Succeeding in their Efforts to Muzzle Academia"
— Karl Jacoby (@karl-jacoby.bsky.social) 2026-03-16T11:13:34.643Z
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...
Professors Are Changing What They Teach, Even Far from Trump’s Gaze
Harvard is the White House’s biggest target, but professors all over the country have been censoring themselves, avoiding provocative topics and rewriting grants.
Schools in more liberal places, including Northwestern in Illinois and Brown in Rhode Island, have sometimes acceded to some of the federal government’s demands. Tony Luong for The New York Times
By Alan Blinder
March 16, 2026, 5:00 a.m. ET
Rewritten syllabuses. Self-censored lectures. Stilted classroom discussions. Grant applications stripped of words that might infuriate President Trump and his allies, if they are submitted at all. ... Many of the nation’s professors are changing how they teach and research as Mr. Trump pursues a seismic reimagining of American higher education. ... Although the Trump administration has focused much of its ire on elite institutions, the government’s tactics have unnerved people throughout academia. The consequences are trickling to campuses large and small, public and private.
The White House insists that its campaign is essential to stamp out bigotry and rebuild eroded public confidence in an academic system that conservatives say is tilted against them. The quest to impose Mr. Trump’s ideas, though, has been so rigid that some critics have likened it to how authoritarian leaders suppress free thought and dissent.
Conservative states like Texas and Florida have rushed to follow Mr. Trump. Schools in more liberal places, including Northwestern in Illinois and Brown in Rhode Island, have sometimes acceded to federal demands.
Faculty members who had fretted that academic culture had become too cloistered and political have sometimes welcomed the shifts. But in interviews in recent months, and in written submissions to The New York Times, dozens of others described feeling stifled. Many of them spoke on the condition of anonymity because they feared retribution. ... The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
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Alan Blinder is a national correspondent for The Times, covering education.
Harvard is the White House’s biggest target, but professors all over the country have been censoring themselves, avoiding provocative topics and rewriting grants.
Schools in more liberal places, including Northwestern in Illinois and Brown in Rhode Island, have sometimes acceded to some of the federal government’s demands. Tony Luong for The New York Times
By Alan Blinder
March 16, 2026, 5:00 a.m. ET
Rewritten syllabuses. Self-censored lectures. Stilted classroom discussions. Grant applications stripped of words that might infuriate President Trump and his allies, if they are submitted at all. ... Many of the nation’s professors are changing how they teach and research as Mr. Trump pursues a seismic reimagining of American higher education. ... Although the Trump administration has focused much of its ire on elite institutions, the government’s tactics have unnerved people throughout academia. The consequences are trickling to campuses large and small, public and private.
The White House insists that its campaign is essential to stamp out bigotry and rebuild eroded public confidence in an academic system that conservatives say is tilted against them. The quest to impose Mr. Trump’s ideas, though, has been so rigid that some critics have likened it to how authoritarian leaders suppress free thought and dissent.
Conservative states like Texas and Florida have rushed to follow Mr. Trump. Schools in more liberal places, including Northwestern in Illinois and Brown in Rhode Island, have sometimes acceded to federal demands.
Faculty members who had fretted that academic culture had become too cloistered and political have sometimes welcomed the shifts. But in interviews in recent months, and in written submissions to The New York Times, dozens of others described feeling stifled. Many of them spoke on the condition of anonymity because they feared retribution. ... The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
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Alan Blinder is a national correspondent for The Times, covering education.
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