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PERSPECTIVES: This Federal Administration “Is Dismantling the American Dream”

"It is past time to acknowledge that we must all unite to wage a wholesale battle for the soul of …

by Future U/ February 10, 2026/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

NEWS BRIEFS: For Authoritarians, “Higher Education is The Enemy” Until You Control It to Serve Your Regime, Then It’s “Your Friend”

“Authoritarian populists have grasped the crucial strategic importance of universities.”

by Future U/ October 30, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

FUTUREU VIDEO: Frank Fear on the Authoritarian Takeover of American Higher Education

"Higher education is in the throes of a government sponsored authoritarian-inspired takeover."

by Future U/ October 21, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Trump’s Executive Order Seeks to Disable Dissent

"It augurs the worst crackdown on political dissent in generations, targeting dissent & the groups that enable dissent."

by Future U/ September 28, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: “Kirk Reveled in Open Bigotry”

"Height of delusion to see him as a model. He was an opportunistic bigot who served plutocratic sponsors."

by Future U/ September 19, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: On Trump and “The State of Exception”

"Trump is governing as if his election had doubled as a declaration of a national state of emergency."

by Future U/ July 10, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives/

PERSPECTIVES: “Appeasing Authoritarianism ‘Is Never Really Going to Work’”

The political attacks are based "on the false narrative that our campuses as bastions of liberal progressivism.”

by Future U/ June 17, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Public Higher Ed, Society/

PERSPECTIVES: Majority of Political Scientists Surveyed Believe U.S. is Sliding From a Liberal Democracy to Authoritarianism

Steven Levitsky, government prof, Harvard Univ: "It is certainly reversible, but we are no longer living in a liberal democracy."

by Future U/ April 24, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

VIDEO: Harvard Says No to Trump, “Unquestionable Violation of First Amendment Rights”

"This is what authoritarianism looks like."

by Future U/ April 15, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Perspectives, Society, Video/

COMMENTARY: “Capitulating to the Assault on Higher Education Will Only Bring More Attacks”

"Remember what Martin Luther King Jr. taught us about being complacent when civil rights are on the line."

by Future U/ April 9, 2025/ Higher Ed, Perspectives, Society/

COMMENTARY: “When Academic Freedom is Lost, We Lose the Foundation of Higher Education as a Space for Critical Inquiry and Moral Courage”

"We take up this struggle with clear eyes about the forces aligned against us."

by Future U/ March 27, 2025/ Fascist Neoliberalism, Higher Ed, Society/

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