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Of the historians, lawyers, and scholars I spoke to while writing this, many said the same thing: What's happening now is worth than McCarthyism. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The historians, lawyers, and scholars I spoke with were in marked agreement that the current moment is not just comparable to but even more damaging than previous Red Scares. Within higher education, today’s crackdown is “worse than McCarthyism—much worse,” Ellen Schrecker, a historian and the author of No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities, told me. Then, she explained, individual academics were scrutinized and fired for Communist ties. But today, the country is experiencing a “frontal attack on everything that has to do with universities and colleges,” Schrecker said. This assault on higher education is best understood as a means of destroying a locus of political opposition. With growing political polarization along educational lines, college-educated voters have become more likely to vote for the Democratic Party. Trump’s solution is an attempted dismantling of the institutions that helped produce these voters in the first place—and a symbolic attack on institutions of knowledge and expertise that are inherently at odds with Trump’s model of governance by know-nothingism.
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It will make it more convenient when tables turn and their military refuges become their home detention locations.
October 31, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The chances of him reaching 2028 are 50/50 at best.
October 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I wish Stephen would try this. It's past time to find out how SCOTUS would rule.
October 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Chances are strong that Trump will be incapacitated or in deep dementia by 2028.
October 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
He won't succeed and he'll take the GOP and the project 2025 down with him
September 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM
As are the vast majority of wealthy people.
September 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM