Zoe Sherman, until recently, was associate professor of economics at Merrimack College, writes about the circumstances in higher education: “Spring semester of 2025—with foreign-born students being arrested and sent to far-off detention facilities for thinking the First Amendment applied to them, with public data sources at the foundation of urgent research agendas being demolished, with entire vocabularies disappearing from college websites and published scholarship almost as fast as they are disappearing from government websites, with scholars who study fascism deciding that now is the time for them to leave the United States—we are in the second act of Cabaret hurtling toward the closing curtain.” Read more in Academe Blog.

For perspective, here is Zoe’s 2014 article published in Common Dreams.