Protesters march at Columbia University. The Trump administration demanded that Columbia concede on the most important principle of any university – academic freedom. And the university capitulated. Photograph: Bing Guan/The New York Times Democracies don’t turn into autocracies easily or overnight. There has to be a critical mass of true believers – but more important is the critical mass of appeasers. These are the people and institutions who imagine that if they capitulate early they will avoid the worst of it. They cede their own power in the deluded hope that, if they don’t fight back, the bullies will leave...
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