The Trump administration has found yet another way to bring universities to heel.

No longer content to just yank federal funding to compel compliance, President Donald Trump—ever the tacky salesman—came up with a new idea: forcing schools to agree to a 10-point “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” in exchange for preferential access to federal funds.

There’s no doubt that the administration thinks this is a cute way to sidestep accusations about—and lawsuits over—its illegal withholding of federal funds from universities that have displeased King Trump in some way. But this arrangement is no better.

Essentially, schools will get more federal money if they agree to let the government tell them what to do. Much of this is just an incoherent demand for affirmative action,

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