Opinion: The end of the university as we know it

The obvious threat here is that institutions will fall in line with the administration’s broadest goals in order to preserve their funding. But there is the deeper threat that the Polish poet Czesław Miłosz identified in “The Captive Mind,” his exploration of how intellectuals adapt to authoritarian regimes.

The Yale University campus, including Harkness Tower, is in New Haven, Connecticut, on Monday, December 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)