August 26, 2026•1 min read•from Inside Higher Ed

Trump Attack on Higher Ed ‘More Serious Than McCarthy Era’

Cover of Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump and headshots of the author Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone

Emma Whitford Wed, 08/26/2026 - 03:00 AM

A new book edited by former Columbia University President Lee Bollinger and University of Chicago legal scholar Geoffrey Stone discusses how university autonomy is threatened by the Trump administration and what it might take to save it.

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