Last month, one of Donald Trump’s most trusted aides laid out a playbook for a no-holds-barred assault on the United States’ top universities. The US president has been following it to the letter since. “We’re going to bankrupt these universities,” Leo Terrell, head of the newly created federal taskforce to combat anti-Semitism, told Fox News. “We’re going to take away every single federal dollar.” If they did not play ball, he warned, they should “lawyer up, because the federal government is coming after you”. This was not hyperbole. Since entering the White House, Trump has launched an attack on US...