As Trump and his goons strip Americans of our constitutional rights, the silence of the nation’s leadership class is deafening.
I’m old enough to remember when, during the Vietnam war, university presidents utilized their bully pulpits to remind America of its moral center.
Today, university presidents are cowed. I recently talked to one young female college president who told me, point blank, that “university presidents have no business speaking out on public issues”.
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I’m old enough to remember when, during the Vietnam war, university presidents utilized their bully pulpits to remind America of its moral center.
Today, university presidents are cowed. I recently talked to one young female college president who told me, point blank, that “university presidents have no business speaking out on public issues”.
America’s leadership class is failing us. It’s up to you and me to defend democracy | Robert Reich
The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders
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