With their assault on science, Trumpists aren’t just harming America – they’re harming themselves | Jan-Werner Müller
The assault now also targets foreign students and any kind of international collaboration – a major blow to US soft power. Michael Kratsios wants to shift decision-making from experts in universities to private corporations, which, helped by AI, are supposedly better positioned to spot potential breakthroughs. Kratsios wishes the government to adopt “the intentionality of a serious investor” in order to usher in a new “golden age of science” (declaring something “golden” seems enough to succeed in Trump-world).
- ▪The assault now also targets foreign students and any kind of international collaboration – a major blow to US soft power.
- ▪Michael Kratsios wants to shift decision-making from experts in universities to private corporations, which, helped by AI, are supposedly better positioned to spot potential breakthroughs.
- ▪Kratsios wishes the government to adopt “the intentionality of a serious investor” in order to usher in a new “golden age of science” (declaring something “golden” seems enough to succeed in Trump-world).
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‘The ideological assault on universities continues.’ Photograph: Tierney L Cross/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesView image in fullscreen‘The ideological assault on universities continues.’ Photograph: Tierney L Cross/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesOpinionTrump administrationWith their assault on science, Trumpists aren’t just harming America – they’re harming themselvesJan-Werner MüllerThe administration is subjugating science to political imperatives, a major blow to US soft power and technological progressFri 7 Aug 2026 06.00 EDTLast modified on Fri 7 Aug 2026 06.01 EDTShareThe Trump administration is waging an unprecedented war on institutions devoted to research and higher learning.
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