John Oliver has taken goal at the whole lot from Donald Trump’s assembly with Russian president Vladimir Putin to Trump’s friendship with convicted baby intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein lately, however in Sunday’s episode of Final Week Tonight he explored a special type of relationship: the monetary stranglehold Trump’s administration is at the moment placing on greater schooling institutions like Harvard College in an try to get them to comply with a listing of calls for.
Within the video above Oliver provides a abstract of what is occurred to date, from Trump accusing Ivy League faculties of antisemitism and “radical left indoctrination” to a lot of faculties caving in to the president’s calls for as a way to have their analysis grants restored.
“They wish to flip again a clock that fairly actually had taken manner too lengthy to maneuver ahead, and restore the position of academia to being a coaching floor for these trying to uphold previous techniques of energy as an alternative of questioning them. And look, you’ll be able to have issues with academia. You possibly can assume it is too cloistered or too liberal, you’ll be able to assume it is turning into too costly or that its sources are misallocated, however the notion of the state all of the sudden executing a sweeping takeover of upper schooling to this diploma is chilling,” says Oliver.
“And if this administration’s actions have taught us one factor to date, it is that no capitulation might be sufficient, and they’re going to by no means cease demanding extra. So on condition that, I would argue that to the extent they will, these establishments have to cease yielding, stand agency, and combat again.”
