How Trump Defeated Columbia The inside story of an unconditional surrender
They describe a collapse in three acts. A period of vertiginous success that hid underlying problems. A steady burn through the months after October 7. And a blitz by adversaries in government who understood Columbia’s vulnerability better than anyone. After another embittered class has its commencement on May 21, Columbia will lurch into a summer of ugly possibilities. Students are still attempting major disruptions on campus, and the school has laid off 180 employees whose pay relied on federal funding. Scientists are hoarding supplies. “Everything is pretty much being held together with Scotch tape,” the director of a research institute at Columbia said. “The only thing that’s saving us from a wholesale exodus is they’re not funding any new grants at Harvard either, but we’re very worried about the flight of our most outstanding people. The Europeans and Chinese are both circling like mad.”
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by Nick Summers, New York Magazine.