Samiksha Bhattacharjee
For years, the threat to free speech on American campuses was an inside job — a crisis defined by rows of administrators better suited to a daycare than a university, and crowds of activist students holding up placards, eager to police “wrongthink” and silence dissent.
But as 2025 became a record-breaking year for campus censorship in the USA, a new player has emerged: the state.
With the federal government beginning to fight fire with fire (using funding freezes and visa revocations to ensure ideological enforcement), many reformers have come to believe that the only way to save the “marketplace of ideas” is through top-down government intervention.
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