Jonathan Feingold and Veena Dubal, writing in Academe: As Johns Hopkins University president Ronald Daniels has observed, “Independent universities unnerve authoritarians because everything that these institutions strive to achieve is inimical to the autocrat’s devotion to the accumulation and arbitrary exercise of coercive public power.” The Trump administration is not hiding its agenda. In an interview published in The New York Times in early March, for instance, Trump ally and right-wing activist Christopher Rufo situated these attacks within a broader campaign to make universities feel “existential terror.” Read more here.