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Academic Freedom on Life Support

Academic Freedom on Life Support

De: Robert Scheer
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Academic Freedom on Life Support examines how universities across the United States are narrowing the boundaries of acceptable speech and punishing dissent, creating a climate of fear for faculty and students. Through reporting, interviews, and analysis, ScheerPost exposes the political, financial, and cultural forces driving this crisis. When open inquiry collapses, the democratic mission of higher education is put at risk — and this show documents that unraveling in real time.Copyright 2026 Robert Scheer
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  • Academic Freedom on Life Support: Trump’s War on Knowledge

    Academic Freedom on Life Support: Trump’s War on Knowledge
    Feb 6 2026

    Today on Scheer Intelligence, we pull back the curtain on a crisis unfolding quietly but catastrophically across American higher education. Robert Scheer sits down with Professor Steve Macek — scholar, organizer, and one of the country’s sharpest analysts of academic freedom — to examine what he calls an unprecedented assault on the institutions that produce knowledge itself.

    From Trump’s weaponization of the Justice Department to Democratic governors signing bills that criminalize criticism of Israel, the attack on academic freedom is no longer coming from the fringes. It’s bipartisan, it’s systemic, and it’s reshaping the university into a place where surveillance replaces debate and self‑censorship replaces inquiry.

    In this conversation, Scheer and Macek trace the historical lineage — from Galileo to McCarthy to the present — and confront the chilling reality that tenure no longer protects scholars, adjuncts are silenced by precarity, and entire universities can now be punished for allowing dissent.

    If you want to understand why America’s intellectual life is collapsing into fear, conformity, and political intimidation, this episode is essential.
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