This is a dreadful situation and thank you for highlighting it. Having worked in academia in Ireland I know how vital government funding is to support new research, and how competitive it is. The language used in the letter smacks of a totalitarian agenda terrified of intellectual development and freedom, especially those executive orders being used in some crazy way to justify these decisions.
Thank you so much for reading and commenting. One of the reasons why I am writing about this here on Substack is to let readers like you, who live overseas, know a little more about what is going on here. I know not everything is being reported (it’s such a wave of actions - impossible to report everything, even if outlets were willing). It is dreadfully alarming how little is being reported here in the States. So we have to do what we can to spread the word. Thank you again for reading!
Some of these issues are being reported internationally, especially the raft of executive orders. But the nature of some of them appears to be insidious and obviously they have been working on them in the background for a while. The tariffs issue is now taking precedence as it will effect so many lives, across so manyl countries. Let's hope that common sense will emerge and prevail.
This is a dreadful situation and thank you for highlighting it. Having worked in academia in Ireland I know how vital government funding is to support new research, and how competitive it is. The language used in the letter smacks of a totalitarian agenda terrified of intellectual development and freedom, especially those executive orders being used in some crazy way to justify these decisions.
Thank you so much for reading and commenting. One of the reasons why I am writing about this here on Substack is to let readers like you, who live overseas, know a little more about what is going on here. I know not everything is being reported (it’s such a wave of actions - impossible to report everything, even if outlets were willing). It is dreadfully alarming how little is being reported here in the States. So we have to do what we can to spread the word. Thank you again for reading!
Some of these issues are being reported internationally, especially the raft of executive orders. But the nature of some of them appears to be insidious and obviously they have been working on them in the background for a while. The tariffs issue is now taking precedence as it will effect so many lives, across so manyl countries. Let's hope that common sense will emerge and prevail.