Government’s Long and Tangled Relationship with Universities
On March 27th, former President Donald Trump signed an executive order called “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” with the goal of eliminating what it described as the “corrosive ideology” that portrays American history in a “negative” way. This order has been criticized as an effort to control thought, and is seen by some as part of a larger pattern of unprecedented challenges to academic freedom and…