Book review: Policing Higher Education: The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why It Matters
Book review: Policing Higher Education: The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why It Matters
- September 11, 2026
- Work by Eve Darian-Smith, global studies, is featured by the University of Chicago Press Journals
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Across the world, the past decade has witnessed substantial government intrusions into university operations. … As scholars seek to interpret these threats, they could ask for no better companion than Eve Darian-Smith’s Policing Higher Education. Darian-Smith’s book makes three major contributions to our understanding of higher education’s contemporary political problems. The first is its scope. … Second, Darian-Smith’s framing makes Policing Higher Education an urgent read. … Third, Darian-Smith’s richest contribution rests in calling attention to the stakes of political intrusion into academic affairs.
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