As many of the readers of this blog know, I have been spending a lot of time over the last couple of months defending civil society in general and higher education in particular from the authoritarian overreach of the White House. My own writings are collected online, but I thought in this blog entry I’d list some of the interviews I’ve done on this topic.
- The Washington Post: A college president offers a class in standing up to Trump—Wesleyan University’s president is advocating for values in higher education while others stay silent.
- The Hill: Trump is coming for the universities, and they are failing to fight back
- The American Prospect: Columbia’s Capitulation, and Wesleyan’s Pushback
- MSNBC “The Beat”
- MSNBC “Velshi”
And most recently, I spoke at length with The New Yorker on the importance for speaking out at this moment as a college president: “I think my job as a leader of the university is to speak up for the values that we claim to believe in, especially when they’re at odds with people with enormous power.”