Austrian Scientists in U.S. Report Climate of Fear
Science under attack – How the Trump administration affects the academic landscape in the US
Budget cuts, uncertainty and censorship – in the US, free academic research is under attack and universities are being declared the enemy. Two academics in the US describe the effects of these massive cuts – they report a climate of uncertainty and fear. Sociologist and political scientist Alexandra Lieben of UCLA is president of the association ASciNA (Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America). Contemporary historian Maximilian Brockhaus of the University of Vienna is currently a research fellow at the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota.
How would you describe the current state of academic freedom in the US?
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