On January 1, 1990, Charles Krauthammer penned a piece for Foreign Affairs in which he asserted that the world had now entered the “Unipolar Moment,” a moment in which the United States remained the sole superpower and arbiter of world affairs through the American-led financial, trade, economic, and security-based system. In this article, Krauthammer stated: […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on American Greatness on October 10, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. On September 30, 2025, a federal trial court in Massachusetts found that the Trump Administration violated the First Amendment in March when it moved to detain and deport Mahmoud […]
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Dear Samuel, In a landmark ruling, a federal court yesterday ruled that the Trump administration, as part of a broad assault on our civil rights, violated the First Amendment in carrying out a policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons. The AAUP, the Middle Eastern Studies Association and several AAUP chapters […]
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Perusing the preliminary rosters for my first-year college writing courses, I thought half-humorously that I could easily have been looking at the United Nations staff directory. Most of the names were of Middle Eastern, Indian, Pakistani, or East Asian origin, with a sprinkling of African, Hispanic, and Eastern European backgrounds. Common Anglo-Saxon surnames were conspicuous […]
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Author’s Note: This article is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, sent to subscribers every Thursday. For more content like this and to receive the full newsletter each week, enter your name and email under “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” located on the right-hand side of the site. I didn’t think […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from an article originally published by the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal on July 14, 2025. It is crossposted here with permission. Buried in a recent report from the Economic Innovation Group is a statistic that should make every university administrator in America lose sleep: Foreign-born workers who arrived […]
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Harvard does not trust the Trump administration. The Trump administration does not trust Harvard. Yet, you make peace with your enemies, not your friends. The best way forward is for Harvard—and other elite schools—to make a deal on one important aspect of their dispute: Provide admissions transparency in exchange for student visa forbearance. If that […]
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The joy of learning to build something useful, of unearthing what no one has seen before, of understanding what was once obscure or even a mystery, of finally putting the data together, of creating something new are intellectual and spiritual joys. The satisfaction of disciplining yourself to effectuate a goal, of working with a team, […]
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Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Harvard Salient on May 22, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s styleguidles, it is crossposted here with permission. Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) moved to suspend international students’ current and future enrollment at Harvard University, citing serious concerns about national security, institutional noncompliance, and a […]
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Author’s Note: This article is from my weekly “Top of Mind” email, sent to subscribers every Thursday. For more content like this and to receive the full newsletter each week, enter your name and email under “SIGN UP FOR OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, ‘TOP OF MIND,’” located on the right-hand side of the site. With headlines dominated […]
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On February 1, reports emerged that Liu Lijun, a Chinese national studying at the University of California, Los Angeles, is facing deportation after participating in anti-Israel protests on campus. Liu’s case marks one of the first applications of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on January 29. This order targets—among other things—foreign students […]
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Nearly a decade ago, my then colleague Andrew Gillen suggested that one could say that higher education was in a bit of a “bubble”: over-exuberant “investors” in human capital, better known as students, were potentially misallocating their resources, becoming increasingly underemployed after graduation, leading to adverse financial consequences. In the private sector, bubbles, like those […]
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