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The second term of Donald Trump has officially begun, but despite all the things he’s unveiled in the past several weeks, we don’t know fully what his policies are going to be over the next four years.

That is in part because Trump himself is a very erratic figure who says things that are nonsensical, even by his own standards. And also because while there are documents such as Project 2025 which were created by Trump's ideological allies in the reactionary movement, that document itself is not particularly detailed in a number of ways.

But one thing we can be sure is going to happen in the second Trump administration is that he will conduct a full-scale assault on America's colleges and universities. As a candidate, he did promise to create taxes on private university endowments. And he also talked about removing the funding for universities that don't bow to his various censorship demands.

Unlike a number of other Trumpian boasts and threats, he is very likely to follow through on these ones because Republicans in a number of states and localities have enacted many of the policies that Trump has talked about doing on the campaign trail.

Joining me today to talk about all this is Nils Gilman, a friend of the show who is the chief operating officer at the Berggruen Institute, a think tank in Southern California that publishes Noema Magazine. He is also the former associate chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he saw first-hand just what the [00:02:00] Republican vision for education in the United States is. He’s also the co-author of a new book called Children of a Modest Star, which we discuss at the end of the episode.

TIMECODES
00:00 Introduction
03:37 The Milo Yiannopoulos incident at Berkeley
14:17 Trump has learned from other authoritarians' playbooks
23:54 The crisis of legitimacy in higher education
34:08 The role of sports in universities
36:51 DeSantis' attack on Florida universities will be Trump's model
42:22 Historical parallels: Germany in the 1930s and the rise of the American university
46:23 Despite the right's wholesale assault on education, many academics still don't take it seriously
49:34 The deadly myth of "non-partisanship" in an era where the far-right is assaulting all knowledge
54:14 Liberalism's epistemic inability to use power politics
58:25 'Children of a Modest Star' and a future-oriented liberalism

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