This is another week of mounting alarm and anxiety. Government breakdown, economic instability and international chaos have been building. This is the week the war on universities went nuclear. This is the week the administration's wanton disregard for due process and habeas corpus became clear, along with their plans for domestic and foreign concentration camps. This is the week its defiance of court orders - including flagrantly lying about them - may precipitate the constitutional crisis we’ve been dreading. And Easter Sunday is the day the president's stooges in the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security may recommend the invocation of the Insurrection Act. Woe!
How good it was to march with colleagues - students and faculty - from across the city in the Rally for the Right to Learn today. Hands off our students! Hands off higher ed! Hands off the life of a free people!
