Yale's Negotiations with Trump Spark Backlash, Highlight Authoritarian Structures

The federal government isn’t America’s only authoritarian institution | Jan-Werner Müller

Backlash at Yale to its negotiations with Trump shine a light on the danger of smaller authoritarian structures in civil society As news started to spread of Yale’s leadership negotiating a deal with the Trump administration, the university’s faculty, students and alumni sprang into action to oppose any settlement. What the president and lawyers intend remains unclear. In the case of Harvard, it appears that Trumpists – and Trump himself, for that matter – might have been leaking about conces...

By Jan-Werner Müller