Yess -- but it's true everywhere: K-12 ed, food stamps, public transport, etc.
This is the neoliberal project full effect w cultural narratives of market forces, efficiency, and finance obscuring the material movement of wealth/income upward to elites and gutting of the collective public good.
It feels like it's been impossible to get people outside of higher ed to understand that eliminating staff/programs/majors is primarily an ideological project, whatever claims are made about finances.
What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.
Feb 5, 2026 16:20
