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Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder on Fighting Illiberalism, Right and Left

The Good Fight

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The Importance of State Intervention in Higher Education

Sally Kohn: I'm deeply convinced that former authoritarian populism and some of the illiberal tendencies on the left, they actually need each other as files in order to succeed. And so when our in this world, with suddenly anybody who criticizes anything on the left has been seen as secretly running interference for Trump or not playing board at a moment, will we just have to hold together? She says she thinks it lays the wrong kind of precedent; state interfering in higher education is "fundamentally anti-intellectual" Skelton: We are in the business of training critical minds and citizens. So this is not a place where we should have thought police from the state.

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