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Could not agree more with @ryanenos.bsky.social. Columbia has lost so much credibility in the eyes of its faculty, students, and staff and is still at the whims of Trump. According to CU's climate survey, >80%of employees feel the university is not aligned with professional and ethical values.

There is no political downside to opposing authoritarianism. (cc Yale).

Yes, this was also true at Harvard. The faculty created resistance. Leadership was dragged along.

Trump is getting institutions to delegitimize and weaken themselves. No institution that has made a “deal” appears to be better off now than other comparable institutions. That’s particularly the in higher ed. Here’s hoping that Yale does not follow in Columbia’s footsteps

✨ #TheBostonGlobe 👏😃

White House reporter challenge: ask Trump to define "Communism".

I'm increasingly convinced that online gambling is a vice that should be banned. The difficulty (besides the fact that the courts said the Federal government can't do so) is that there is a whole lot of money behind it now and no (major) organized constituency opposing it.

"Universities like Columbia are not better off for having capitulated last year. They compromised their independence and suffered reputational damage, yet are still subject to [Trump's] arbitrary behavior." Read @ryanenos.bsky.social on need to resist Trump: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/27/o...

The answer is always no, because the ask from the Trump Administration will always be poorly reasoned, often poorly lawyered, sometimes illegal, and usually anti-constitutional. Your agreement places other institutions at risk, and you will end up like the restaurant owner in Goodfellas.

"When Harvard chose to fight back against the Trump administration, it did so at a time when we had few examples of successful resistance...Today, Trump is weaker politically, and we have mounting evidence that civic resistance works." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/27/o...

Don't cave, Yale! Levitsky and Enos: Harvard defeated the Trump administration in court & won back research funding the administration illegally withheld. It has earned international respect. And most importantly, it demonstrated that civil society can successfully resist antidemocratic attacks.

The assignment hasn't changed. Yale, you can't make a deal with these people. Don't do it.

With Ryan Enos. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/27/o...

@wearehighered.bsky.social

In the @bostonglobe.com from colleagues @ryanenos.bsky.social and @stevelevitsky.bsky.social, in a very welcome show of support for #Yale faculty, students and alumni who are fighting to keep our leaders from caving to Mr. Trump. #YaleDontCave www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/27/o...

"When Harvard chose to fight back against the Trump administration, it did so at a time when we had few examples of successful resistance...Today, Trump is weaker politically, and we have mounting evidence that civic resistance works." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/27/o...

Possibly because the US channeled the idea toward rich commoners, rather than toward the aristocracy, making it seem more democratic.

Musk is uniquely destructive because he was given the keys. The more general pathology, as demonstrated by this interview, is the batshit-crazy assumption that because you are really rich that you are qualified to opine and act on a wide array of public life.

Yes, it's worthy of ridicule (and, yes, I feel bad saying that about two teenagers), but I have sat down with ex-members of Congress wringing their hands about excessive partisanship and their solutions are not a lot different (which is a good example the difficulty of systematic thinking...).

Notable in all the hand-wringing over trust in higher-ed that universities are perceived pretty favorably in terms of "respecting different viewpoints", this is despite the barrage of elite criticism on the point. A reminder that this is a very niche issue. news.gallup.com/poll/712748/...