‘Nobody should suppose that this will stop at Columbia’

‘The cost of the government’s attack on Columbia’

Christopher L. Eisgruber at The Atlantic

The “rise of the American research university in the 20th century depended” on “strong principles of academic freedom,” says Christopher L. Eisgruber. Recent “events have raised legitimate concerns about antisemitism at Columbia,” but the “government can respond to those concerns without infringing on academic freedom.” The “principles of that freedom do not give faculty or students the right to disrupt university operations,” but the “government is using grants that apply to Columbia science departments as a cudgel to force changes.”