Profile of the Trump minion in charge of expanding federal power to quash private universities’ academic freedom has only this little summary of her beliefs, near the end—“she described [them] as a libertarianism that abhors political correctness.” But doesn’t ask her about the contradictions!1/2
She sat for an interview in her West Wing office, but weirdly the reporter apparently didn’t try to get her to reconcile that “libertarianism” with *any* of the unprecedented right-wing P.C. government constraints on institutional and personal freedoms it was her job to enforce for 7 months. 2/2
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...
I don't understand why a mixed-race person would go full Trump. MAGAs don't like such people. They're a bit purist about race, shall we say. Everyone has an emotional wound from youth and she saw her chance for revenge? Everyone wants to be important and this was a big hire? Mystified.
As your mother would tell you in high school, these "friends" are not your friends. They do not wish you well.
just another yuppie career whore
libertarian means the government should do and allow nothing that provides protections or opportunities for those at a disadvantage--poor, black, women, homosexual/lesbian. i.e. acting to ensure equality is by their definition discrimination against whites.
That’s what it’s cone to mean in practice in its Milton Friedman/Koch Brothers form. Just as American. “conservatism” has been redefined by MAGA the last decade. But they still have independent meanings. Organizations like the ACLU and FIRE are both in their different ways libertarian enterprises.
The weak lie.
So why haven’t “private” (and that may be the problem) universities organized a coordinated response to this legal blackmail?