Higher Education – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org The Law and Political Economy Project Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:28:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://lpeproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-LPE_Favicon_512px_BlackBG-450x450.png Higher Education – LPE Project https://lpeproject.org 32 32 How the Trump Administration is Constructing Jewishness https://lpeproject.org/blog/how-the-trump-administration-is-constructing-jewishness/ Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:29:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11748 According to President Donald Trump, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is “not Jewish anymore.” Nor are Jewish Americans who vote for the Democratic Party. Nor are Jewish college students who oppose the Israeli government’s ongoing and intensifying genocide in Gaza. This rhetoric is not limited to the President. Leo Terrell, the head of the Department of Justice’s new Antisemitism Task Force...

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]]> Solidarity during the Second Red Scare: The Lessons of Thomas Emerson https://lpeproject.org/blog/solidarity-during-the-second-red-scare/ Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11734 Thomas Emerson is best known today in the legal academy as perhaps the foremost scholar of the First Amendment of his generation. Yet this self-described “legal liberal” and “general socialist” has a much more significant and often neglected legacy: his refusal to be silenced by the forces of repression during the Second Red Scare. At a time when the academy was being ruthlessly purged of those...

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]]> When It Comes to Free Speech, Dark Money Often Speaks Louder Than Words https://lpeproject.org/blog/when-it-comes-to-free-speech-dark-money-often-speaks-louder-than-words/ Thu, 15 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11577 In September 2024, an anonymous donor gave $100 million to the University of Chicago to establish the Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression, tasked with “promot[ing]…free and open discourse at the University of Chicago and beyond.” Since the donation’s announcement, the Forum’s website credits several conservative billionaires and family foundations for their “leadership support.” The contribution...

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]]> Reckoning with the Reckoning in Higher Ed https://lpeproject.org/blog/reckoning-with-the-reckoning-in-higher-ed/ Tue, 13 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11539 The Trump administration has launched a wholesale ideological and fiscal attack on higher education, holding federal funds hostage while demanding a ransom in the way of wide-ranging curricular and disciplinary changes. At the time of this writing, Columbia University has capitulated to its recent shakedown, but Harvard’s recent refusal to follow suit has inspired other institutions to speak out...

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]]> A Call To Defend Free Speech From Weaponized Allegations of Terrorism Ties https://lpeproject.org/blog/free-speech-weaponized-allegations/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11501 Today, the Trump Administration is engaged in a broad assault on campus life, with repression of speech in defense of Palestinian rights as the tip of the spear. This includes arresting, detaining, and threatening with deportation members of university communities for speech the government opposes. In this climate, many institutions of higher education are trying to keep their heads down, or worse...

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]]> Eight Legal Experts on Trump’s Assault on Higher Education https://lpeproject.org/blog/eight-legal-experts-on-trumps-assault-on-higher-education/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:50:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11442 Since Inauguration Day, the Trump administration has waged open warfare on higher education. The speed, scope, and volume of executive orders and agency actions have been overwhelming. If the goal was to create chaos and “flood the zone,” the president has delivered. The entries that follow—which cover the administration’s assault on federal grant funding; on trans students...

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]]> How to Use Endowments to Protect University Missions https://lpeproject.org/blog/how-to-use-endowments-to-protect-university-missions/ Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://lpeproject.org/?p=11432 Recent punitive actions by the Trump Administration are putting universities under significant financial strain. These include cutting USAID funding, cutting NIH funding, cancelling (or threatening to cancel) federal funding at Columbia and 60 other universities for allegedly failing to protect students and faculty from “antisemitic violence and harassment,” and threatening to cancel federal...

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