John McCumber, emeritus distinguished professor at UCLA, writing in Academe Magazine: “The Trump administration’s attacks on higher education are often called ‘new McCarthyism,‘ as the title of a recent conference at Brooklyn College has it. Like the McCarthyites seventy years ago, the Trump administration is using its powers to monitor, harass, and oust perceived political enemies. But the foremost targets of today’s actions, colleges and universities, do not behave as targets did in the McCarthy era. Whatever this is, it isn’t McCarthy redux. It’s far worse. Read more here.