https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-attacks-elite-colleges-academia-ivys-1235620978/
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“(I speak from experience.) Inside those stately buildings, though, the nation’s elite colleges are in a state of siege.”
“The point here isn’t so much to punish a couple of Ivy League schools as to establish a tremors of terror throughout academia.”
“For this, they owe him a debt almost as unfathomable as the one they’ve imposed on generations of American kids.”
“That means even more opportunities for kids whose families can afford to spend tens of thousands of dollars for private lessons and travel leagues.”
“Where’s all this tuition money going?”
“It’s demanded that Penn turn over the names of its Jewish students, that Harvard hand over records of international kids.”
“Buried in the details of Trump’s demands for higher ed are some common-sense reforms, like a five-year tuition freeze.”
“He’s made the top level of academia into a noble victim, or even a symbol of principled resistance.”
“The Trump administration continues to “investigate” dozens of major universities for fostering antisemitism.”
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“The incentive for schools to cooperate is easy, because government controls the most important tool: their charitable tax status.”
“The president rose to power on the strength of middle-class white voters — people who feel, justifiably, like they’ve somehow been denied opportunity and blamed for inequality at the same time.”
“Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Trump Is Doing Elite Colleges a Huge Favor The president's attacks on academia have turned top universities into noble victims By Matt Bai Matt Bai Rahm Emanuel: ‘You Don’t Like My Ideas?”
“View all posts by Matt Bai Illustration By VICTOR JUHASZ September 6, 2026 T he nation’s campuses are alive with sounds of optimism again: students reuniting, deans speechifying, parents with Allen wrenches wrestling with Chinese-made dressers.”
““Water’s beautiful today, isn’t it?” one of them says, to which the other fish replies: “Water?”
“Reforming Big Education is probably one of them.”
“But the uncomfortable truth now is that the most elite level of higher education may be our chief enabler of cyclical inequality.”
“THERE AREN’T TOO many issues in American life right now that qualify as what Newt Gingrich, the architect of an earlier Republican revolution, used to call “70 percent issues” — as in, issues on which 70 percent of American voters might actually be able to agree.”
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“( Rahm Emanuel, whom I just visited in Chicago, has already offered the outline of his own reform plan, including a cap on international students and free tuition for families making less than $200,000.) But I doubt you’ll really see much of a debate among other Democrats about how to hold colleges more accountable, and that’s because of Trump and his idiotic culture war.”