The Novels We’re Reading in July
This month, we’re reading about the complexities of love—particularly queer love—in environments that are hostile to it, from war-torn El Salvador to modern-day Lagos. Archive of Unknown Universes: A Novel ...
Tag: Academia
Harvard Should Prepare to Move Abroad
U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to bully Harvard University into submission. Under the guise of promoting “viewpoint diversity,” his administration has canceled all of the university’s federal grants and ...
Can the U.S. Be a Great Power Without Harvard?
Over the decades, Harvard University has become so prominent in American culture that it is easy to mistake it for the prototypical modern university. Founded in 1636, Harvard is older ...
What Washington Doesn’t Understand About CCP Membership
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: The Trump administration flip-flops on Chinese student visas, U.S.-China trade talks continue in London, and a Beijing judge makes a heist. ...
The Origins of the Campus Wars
In his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has taken aim at higher education. His administration has made or threatened draconian cuts to federal university funding, proposed hostile takeovers of ...
How Will Revoking Chinese Student Visas Actually Work?
On May 28, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the United States would “aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party ...
Trump’s Student Visa Crackdown Could Be a Boon for China
The Trump administration’s pledge to revoke the student visas of Chinese students in the United States could inadvertently be a boon for China, which has long been eager to woo ...
Who Pays the Price in Trump’s Crusade Against Universities?
In its crusade against American universities, the Trump administration now appears intent on choking off incoming flows of international students—a group that has long driven scientific innovation in the United ...
Trump’s Attacks on Harvard Cause Alarm in China
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: Chinese students are caught up in Harvard University’s tussle with the Trump administration, China’s defense minister is skipping the premier Asian ...
Why Authoritarians Attack Universities First
One of the leading U.S. experts on fascism is so unsettled by the political climate under President Donald Trump that he’s packing up and leaving the country. Jason Stanley, a ...
