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Trump's attacks on universities get darker, with shadows reaching our shores

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235 points nickcotter | 4 comments | 29 Mar 25 08:29 UTC | HN request time: 1.273s | source
1. bigfudge ◴[29 Mar 25 11:24 UTC] No.43514593[source]▶
Surely a brain drain of liberal arts professors is part of the plan though? Will be interesting to see engineers/pharma/mathematicians also leave. US doesn’t look like a nice place to be in the next few years so perhaps they will.
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2. 2muchcoffeeman ◴[29 Mar 25 11:35 UTC] No.43514660[source]▶
Those are history professors though. I don't want to disparage other lib arts, but the historians are at least looking at what has happened when countries become fascist states. Could they have recognised all the warning signs?
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3. hjgjhyuhy ◴[29 Mar 25 11:36 UTC] No.43514664[source]▶
Yep, it’s an interesting social experiment. USA is becoming like Russia, with fake democracy and robber baron oligarchy that does whatever it wants. Many people are going to be OK with it, as long as they think it benefits them personally. But I’m not sure many in academia will be among those.

I bet China, India and EU will soon overtake America in sciences. Made in America may yet become the new made in Bangladesh.

4. perihelions ◴[29 Mar 25 11:45 UTC] No.43514720[source]▶
Snyder was regularly posted on HN on his subject matter. HN used to consider him someone worth reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10210327 ("Understanding Hitler’s Anti-Semitism (theatlantic.com)" (2015), 59 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41583725 ("Timothy Snyder on How the Collapse of the Soviet Union Took America by Surprise (lithub.com)" (2024), 87 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33104723 ("How does the Russo-Ukrainian War end? (snyder.substack.com)" (2022), 88 comments)

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=timothy%20snyder

And a few more here (Algolia search censors things that were flagged),

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=snyder.substack.com