"But this deal is unlikely to end the attacks. The federal government, and this administration, is simply too powerful and too arbitrary to be credibly bargained with."
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Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/trump-columbia-deal-professor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Y08._TCe.DIcOyB_fI8Xk&smid=tw-share
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“The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.”
-Robert Reich