‘Courage can be contagious, even if it’s in really small doses’: Universities begin to push back

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This week, Harvard University refused to agree to the Trump administration’s demands, leading to a freeze in federal funding. “The overreach. Was much too far,” says Wesleyan University President Michael Roth, but he warns that the “chaotic operation in the White House” really does “provoke fears in civil society.” “This is a tactic we’ve seen from every authoritarian regime,” says GW Law’s Mary Anne Franks, author of ‘Fearless Speech,’ but “courage can be contagious, even if it’s in really