Caving to Trump is paying off for these universities

In its latest attack on higher education, the Trump administration has proposed barring 38 universities from participating in Diplomacy Lab, which pairs academics with state department offices to research foreign policy issues. The reason this time around is that these 38 schools still have a bunch of diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring practices hanging around, stinking up the joint and making white guys sad.

The Guardian obtained an internal memo stating that schools with a “clear DEI hiring policy” should be yanked from the program.

As per usual, there are no real details as to the alleged DEI transgressions here—just that the 38 have a “clear DEI hiring policy.” The administration has declared that DEI is illegal, of course, but it’s just not. First, there’s no such thing as “DEI