From TPM Reader CA …
Thank you very much for the piece on universities. The connection you draw between social authority and public goods is exactly right. Indeed, their status of tax-exempt non-profits depends on a version of this bargain. But I would add to your analysis a problem that I think exists as a condition of possibility for the war being waged by the Trump administration. This is the twofold shift that took place c. 1980, regarding who pays for education and who benefits from research.
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