Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum

Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum

'First, they came for Columbia'

The To-Read list, university edition

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Anne Applebaum
Mar 16, 2025
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Consider this post to be a placeholder, a warning in advance: universities in America are about to be put under pressure of a kind that no one who studies or teaches in America has ever experienced before. As the Harvard Crimson has just written (and I have borrowed their headline, for which they deserve full credit) this is not an accident.

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