The collective stakes of inaction amid threats to higher education
The collective stakes of inaction amid threats to higher education
- September 21, 2026
- Eve Darian-Smith’s Policing Higher Education is reviewed by Academe Magazine
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Eve Darian-Smith’s Policing Higher Education: The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why It Matters offers a sweeping and urgent analysis of the growing assault on universities and scholars worldwide. Darian-Smith situates recent attacks on higher education, both within and beyond the United States, in broad historical and global contexts, tracing transformations in the purposes and governance of higher education from the post–World War II era to the present. Through this expansive framework, Darian-Smith argues that contemporary far-right narratives intended to delegitimize universities and obstruct liberal arts education models should be understood not as attempts to dismantle higher education but rather as efforts to weaponize it in service of neoliberal and antidemocratic agendas.
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