Outside the Beltway

A strange controversy in higher ed.

Dictating the curriculum from on high.

And I read a lot of things.

An attempt to connect higher education and political violence.

An illustration from the Charlie Kirk discourse as to why stories like the TAMU firing matter.

A breaking of the social contract.

Trump uses an antisemitic slur.

The administration’s war on higher ed has escalated.

A plea to the mass media and anyone else who is guilty.

A case from rural Alabama.

Machines have been eliminating blue collar jobs for decades. Now they’re coming for white collar jobs.

The Trump administration treats personally disfavored American institutions the way past administrations treated foreign adversaries. His goal is political submission.

The targeting of international students.

But the Trump administration is out to wreck it.

The media, the academy, and the courts, are all in the crosshairs.

Elite American universities are surrending at an astonishing pace.

In the interests of full disclosure.

A different take on our political realignment.

The New College of Florida invites a white supremacist to campus.

More data shows a more complicated picture.

Too many! Too few!

Time may change me, but I can’t trace time.