What About Alumni Who Support Trump’s Agenda?

When can we expect to see an article featuring alumni who support the Trump administration’s agenda? I realize President Eisgruber only communicates via far-left media, but I would like to believe PAW recognizes an obligation to reach across a wide spectrum of its readership. Each topic presented by Ms. Boyd has important counterarguments. For example, consider the “threat to free speech” against colleges.

A “private” university should not depend on federal tax/debt revenue to fund almost one-fifth of its operating expenses. It’s unacceptable for federal funds to be explicitly or implicitly tethered to support of any nonacademic cause or activity — liberal, conservative or otherwise. Long term trends which have driven colleges overwhelmingly to the left must be reversed to achieve a noninterventionist balance. That means cutting federal funding. That means eliminating pointless, nonproductive overhead positions and “research projects” that run for years without output of any value. Maybe it means ultra wealthy institutions paying their “fair share” of taxes. A multitude of dramatic changes to academia are overdue and welcomed by a majority of Americans. “Free speech” is not, in my view, at risk.

Princeton alumni should welcome an informed debate and balanced journalism on all topics. But I suppose it’s easier and maybe just safer to stick to one-sided portrayals of political advocates such as the story by Ms. Boyd.