Liner Note 44. The 2025 Crisis in University Management: Towards a Parallel University

Selling The Catalyst, UCSB on April 12, 2014 2025 saw a shift in the hard right’s measure for the success of its decades-long attacks on universities: it moved from discrediting to subjugating the university system. It used decades-old methods in which culture wars and budget wars work together. These were now yoked under Trump II with federal coercion campaigns that extorted changes in core…