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Elite Schools Like MIT are Hardly Free Markets for Ideas.
Christopher Rufo | City Journal | October 14, 2025
Oct 14, 2025
Earlier this month, the White House announced a “compact” under which universities would receive funding preferences in exchange for committing to basic educational goals. The compact represents the Trump administration’s most concrete plan yet for ensuring academic excellence and reversing the process of ideological capture in the universities.
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