There's a reason why Claire Shipman, acting president of Columbia University, cut a deal with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon

In March, the Trump administration shocked academia by abruptly canceling hundreds of millions of dollars of federal research grants to Columbia, Harvard, and other elite universities. The administration’s stated reasoning was entirely just: For decades — in a way that became unavoidably visible to many Americans only in the wake of the October 7 Hamas massacre — university administrators have allowed their campuses to become teeming hives of antisemitism,