Autocratic governments often suppress the independence of universities to eliminate opposition. Steven Cook, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, has written about how that crackdown happened in Egypt, Syria and Turkey. He talks with The World’s Carolyn Beeler about his latest article in Foreign Policy, “America’s Universities Could End up Zombies.”
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