Disagree with us, we will shut you out

[GURPS]

In an op-ed for the Boston Globe, Dani Rodrik, professor of international political economy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, calls for what is effectively an academic blacklisting of members of the Trump administration, who, Rodrik contends, should be prohibited from receiving "even a semblance of honor or recognition" from the gatekeepers of higher learning.

"Universities should uphold both free inquiry and the values of liberal democracy," writes Rodrik. "The first calls for unhindered exchange and interaction with Trumpist views. The second requires that the engagement be carefully calibrated, with not even a semblance of honor or recognition bestowed on those serving an administration that so grossly violates liberal democratic norms."

Rodrik's open call for academia to treat members of the Trump administration differently than members of all previous administrations follows outrage from academics over the University of Virginia Public Affairs center's appointment of Marc Short, Trump's former director of legislative affairs, to a one-year senior fellow position. Before that, Harvard appointed Trump campaign staffer Corey Lewandowski as a fellow at the university’s Institute of Politics.



Harvard Professor Calls For Academic Blacklisting Of Trump Administration Members

 

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In an op-ed for the Boston Globe, Dani Rodrik, professor of international political economy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, calls for what is effectively an academic blacklisting of members of the Trump administration, who, Rodrik contends, should be prohibited from receiving "even a semblance of honor or recognition" from the gatekeepers of higher learning.

"Universities should uphold both free inquiry and the values of liberal democracy," writes Rodrik. "The first calls for unhindered exchange and interaction with Trumpist views. The second requires that the engagement be carefully calibrated, with not even a semblance of honor or recognition bestowed on those serving an administration that so grossly violates liberal democratic norms."

Rodrik's open call for academia to treat members of the Trump administration differently than members of all previous administrations follows outrage from academics over the University of Virginia Public Affairs center's appointment of Marc Short, Trump's former director of legislative affairs, to a one-year senior fellow position. Before that, Harvard appointed Trump campaign staffer Corey Lewandowski as a fellow at the university’s Institute of Politics.



Harvard Professor Calls For Academic Blacklisting Of Trump Administration Members

Gatekeepers of higher learning my ass.
Socialists and Communists spouting their liberal trash to our youth instead of teaching them.
Brainwashing our youth with their crazed BS.

It might be a good idea to keep your children ion a Community College so you can watch them and see when the craziness starts.
Sending them to a college where they are constantly being fed liberal agenda's is not a good idea.
I say this when we have an good example right at St. Mary's College of liberals and their agenda's.

 

[vraiblonde]

These are the people who are turning out the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They are gatekeepers, alright, but not of "higher learning".

 

[PrchJrkr]

Amen to that. I was afraid my daughter was going to persue a higher degree after obtaining her AA. Thank God she has signed on with one of the better contractors in the area. Any additional schooling will most likely just be job specific. I haven't run into too many technical liberals.