Trump’s Crackdown on Higher Education Prompts Three Yale Professors, Including a Fascism Scholar, To Leave for Canada

‘I fear there’s going to be a civil war. And I don’t want to bring my kids back into that,’ one of the academics says.

Via Yale University
A distinguished philosophy professor, Jason Stanley, who is also a facism scholar, decided to leave Yale after 12 years “entirely because of the political climate in the United States.” Via Yale University

Will President Trump’s efforts to make higher education “great again” run disgruntled academics out of their posts in America? 

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