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The Trump/Vance Administration seeks academic mediocrity

American universities are the envy of the world—for now. If President Musk’s cuts to the NIH budget hold, that will likely change*. But for JD Vance, that’s a feature, not a bug: “When President Trump and his allies think of the idealized version of higher education, they don’t look to the Ivy League or the […]