5/ "Rufo & his acolytes have found “laboratory for autocracy” to implement his idea—that changing the classroom can nip prog ideas in the bud. The gov’s move is just the culmination of a bigger crusade: new laws to ban classroom discussions of racism or LGBTQ issues from universities down to kindergarten, state monitoring of polit climate on campus, & rt-wing politicization of college governance, tenure, & accreditation—all intended to place a bitter chill on academic freedom: a new McCarthyism"