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American universities and professors are under attack, facing political repression, economic threats, and psychological trauma.
These attacks are part of a larger effort to suppress dissent and control key institutions, mirroring tactics used by authoritarian regimes.
Professors, as truth-seekers and critical thinkers, are being falsely labeled as unpatriotic and Marxist by those seeking to undermine higher education.
University presidents are succumbing to political pressure, betraying their faculty and students by complying with these attacks.
From the Carolinas to Kentucky to California, more and more Americans now know how Will Smith’s “Enemy of the State” character Robert Clayton Dean must have felt as he ran through the streets of Washington, D.C., in a bathr