US Politics
A Calculated Assault: How the Weaponization of Grant Funding Undermines Science, Liberty, and the Constitution
The Trump administration canceled over a thousand research grants worth billions of dollars from the University of California, with federal agencies admitting they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy, and COVID-19 to target projects that conflicted with its political priorities, constituting a gross and systematic assault on academic freedom, scientific inquiry, and the constitutional protections that are supposed to be immune from partisan retaliation. This is a chilling example of using federal power to punish disfavored viewpoints and states, undermining the very foundations of publicly-funded research and the rule of law in a way that should outrage every defender of liberty.
