Academic Freedom on Life Support
Academic Freedom on Life Support examines how universities across the United States are narrowing the boundaries of acceptable speech and punishing dissent, creating a climate of fear for faculty and students. Through reporting, interviews, and analysis, ScheerPost exposes the political, financial, and cultural forces driving this crisis. When open inquiry collapses, the democratic mission of higher education is put at risk — and this show documents that unraveling in real time.
Episodes
Private Eyes on Campus: The New Era of Student Monitoring and Suppression
This latest sit‑down is with journalist Hannah Epstein to unpack a story that sounds like dystopian fiction but is happening on American campuses right now. Her reporting for The Nation begins with a University of Michigan student being confronted by private investigators hired by his own university. From there, Epstein traces a broader pattern of surveillance, intimidation, and administrative pan
Fired for Doing Journalism? Inside the Crackdown on Student Press at UT Dallas
For ScheerPost’s Academic Freedom Project, we are looking to speak with both professors and student journalists covering what’s happening on their campuses and the attacks on the freedoms we hold dear. We understand there is a distinction between academic freedom, freedom of the press, and the First Amendment — but all are vital to a free press and a free campus, where curiosity and inquiry can th
“Tyrants Hate Truth”: Austin Sarat on the New War Against Academic Freedom
Welcome to Academic Freedom on Life Support, hosted by Joshua Scheer. In this episode, we speak with Austin Sarat, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, and one of the first contributors to our project examining the nationwide crisis facing higher education. Sarat argues that “academic freedom in the United States is facing the greatest su
Academic Freedom on Life Support: Trump’s War on Knowledge
Today on Scheer Intelligence, we pull back the curtain on a crisis unfolding quietly but catastrophically across American higher education. Robert Scheer sits down with Professor Steve Macek — scholar, organizer, and one of the country’s sharpest analysts of academic freedom — to examine what he calls an unprecedented assault on the institutions that produce knowledge itself.From Trump’s weaponiza
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