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What Jeff Sessions Doesn’t Get About U.S. Higher Education and Political Correctness - Presidential Opinion

July 31, 2018

Michael S. Roth, president of Wesleyan University (CT), writes: It would be hard to find a period in peacetime when our government has made a more concerted effort to undermine freedom of inquiry and expression. These attacks start with the press and extend to education. Every week President Trump takes aim at journalists, calling them “enemies” of the people, or deriding sources he dislikes as “fake news.” As many have documented, his administration has engaged in an assault on the very notions of investigation and truth, doubling down on lies about Russian cyberattacks, economic markets and tariffs, and his own past behavior.

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