Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Only two months after his inauguration, it’s happening: Universities are caving to the Trump administration. On Friday, Columbia University, which was hit with $400 million in cuts to its federal funding as punishment for its pro-Palestine student protests, acquiesced to the administration’s demands—to ban masks, hire security officers authorized to arrest students, and cede control of the school’s department of Middle East, South Asian, and African studies, among other politically charged requests—in a deal to have its funding reinstated....