Of course we should support academic freedom at Princeton, and President Eisgruber’s defense of it, but this is an attack on higher education and the pursuit of truth across the country, not just at Princeton, with terrible consequences for the whole country. In the 1930s, Hitler dismantled the world’s leading system of research universities and it’s a shame that so many people today seem to take that as a playbook, rather than a warning.
Of course we should support academic freedom at Princeton, and President Eisgruber’s defense of it, but this is an attack on higher education and the pursuit of truth across the country, not just at Princeton, with terrible consequences for the whole country. In the 1930s, Hitler dismantled the world’s leading system of research universities and it’s a shame that so many people today seem to take that as a playbook, rather than a warning.