Among American Universities, None Want To Be The Next Harvard.
“There’s blood in the water on the sector as a whole,” said Christopher Armstrong, a partner at the law firm Holland & Knight who co-chairs its congressional investigations practice. Issues around higher education have new “political salience,” he said, emphasizing that the risk to universities extends beyond just antisemitism and has been percolating for some time.”
The anti-intellectualism has always had a strain that is thread throughout American history. The know nothingingism and unwillingness to explore new and different ideas that could be considered foreign is a constant in our culture and has never dissipated. In fact in the last 15 years the notion has exploded in popularity with conspiracy theories now used to interpret events that are beyond the comprehension of some. Those theories are presented as facts and believed by millions. Higher education is considered a bastion of ideas that are foreign to many and thus attacked as a scary disease and needs elimination.
