Sam WeaverThis article was first published in The Hill on May 29. The full article will available here on June 12. A brief excerpt of this article follows below.
The Trump administration’s sudden cuts to federal research grants to Harvard, Columbia and other universities have rightly raised alarm. But restoring the pre-Trump status quo, as Harvard and many academics demand, will not safeguard intellectual freedom.
Why not? Because the administration’s actions are only a vile escalation of the infringement on intellectual freedom inherent in any system of federal funding. Both are destructive and both must go.
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