Скачать или смотреть The Political Librarian "In Conversation" - Coordinated DEI Political Attacks in Trump’s EOs

Executive Orders are not just administrative actions—they are ideological tools reshaping how libraries, archives, and cultural institutions engage with democracy. In this provocative Political Librarian article, Professor Bharat Mehra, Professor and EBSCO Endowed Chair in Social Justice at the University of Alabama’s School of Library and Information Studies, applies critical theory to the Trump administration’s coordinated DEI dismantling project, helping the field understand how language and rhetoric are being weaponized to eliminate inclusion.

This session will explore how Executive Orders target DEI structures, undermine public knowledge infrastructures, and normalize authoritarian messaging through policy. Mehra connects these developments to historic precedent, including troubling parallels to Weimar-era political rhetoric and democratic erosion. For librarians, trustees, faculty, and students who want to understand the deeper ideological forces shaping current attacks on library services and who want tools to resist them, this conversation offers both analysis and strategy.