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Even before the Trump administration declared war on higher education,

American universities were facing multiple crises,

including attacks on free speech from both sides of the political

spectrum, battles over the curriculum, and expectations that universities serve as adjudicators

of civil rights and social identity claims. titled The Embattled University, the Summer

2025 issue of social research, an international quarterly,

takes an in-depth look at many of those challenges. It features articles by, among others,

Judith Butler on academic freedom in a time of destruction, Lisa Anderson on the therapeutic

turn in American universities, and David Hollinger on the Republican

party's interest to keep the electorate's level of education low. Social research is the

flagship journal of the New School for Social Research in New York City. You can find the journal

at www. s-o-c-r-es.org.

That's s-o-c-r-es.org. There's a link in the show notes.

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My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

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Since winning their first state legislative race with Julia Salazar in 2018,

NYCDSA has methodically built out an electoral juggernaut, winning multiple

statehouse, state senate, and city council races, and now spectacularly, with an incredible

comms operation and a massive volunteer army. They've won the Democratic primary for mayor. Hilariously, the Democratic

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