{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/57cc3c7d-b0fd-4930-9279-4e84c75df457/67f942efd5ed0d5b9dcd2951?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Fee speech: Trump v the Ivies ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/62e286a834d4d9a8af874246/1744388660215-df5352db-98b1-4e5e-9ea4-a58106b83088.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Donald Trump wants to control America’s elite universities. He’s <a href=\"https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/04/10/the-campus-counter-revolution\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">withheld federal research grants</a> and his Department of Homeland Security has selected certain foreign students for <a href=\"https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/04/10/donald-trump-wants-to-deport-foreign-students-merely-for-what-they-say\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">deportation</a> for participating in campus protests. How chilling will the assault on universities be? And what levers does the federal government have to exert control over them?&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>John Prideaux hosts with Adam O’Neal and Idrees Kahloon. They’re joined by <em>The Economist’s </em>Mike Bird and Prof. Nicholas Christakis of Yale University.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"The Economist"}