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The New Dark Age: The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself. By Adam Serwer

The New Dark Age

The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself.

 
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-defund-schools-research-republicans/682742/
 

“The warlords who sacked Rome did not intend to doom Western Europe to centuries of ignorance. It was not a foreseeable consequence of their actions. The same cannot be said of the sweeping attack on human knowledge and progress that the Trump administration is now undertaking—a deliberate destruction of education, science, and history, conducted with a fanaticism that recalls the Dark Ages that followed Rome’s fall.

Every week brings fresh examples. “

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Posted on: May 27, 2025, 7:02 pm Category: Uncategorized

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