The problem is that they got too focused on credentials and money instead of socializing and learning.
It's not a license, Guardian US is a US-based online-only publication owned by the Guardian News and Media, the same entity that owns the British newspaper, online publication, etc.
For some considerable time now The Guardian has had AU (Australia), UK (United Kingdom), US (United States of America), EU (European Union), and International Editions, each with a different focus and overlap with the whole.
General categories include: World, <country>, Environment, Climate crisis, Immigration, Media, Business, Health, Science, Tech, Podcasts, Newsletters, etc.
This specific article has been written by
Jacob Hale Russell is professor of law at Rutgers University.
Dennis Patterson is board of governors professor of law and philosophy at Rutgers University and professor of legal philosophy at Surrey Law School in Guildford, England.
They are the co-authors of The Weaponization of Expertise: How Elites Fuel Populism (MIT Press, 2025).
To my eye it seems typical of content within the greater circle of content published by The Guardian in that it's a well written opinion within a domain by people within that domain .. much as the film reviews are well written opinion pieces by people familiar with film and literature.
kelseyfrog•5mo ago
In this case, ignoring veracity, it's the summation of factors that led to universities taking a stance. The author has to enumerate them, and describe the reason why the university capitulated, and then modify the equation so that university does not capitulate again. The underlying factor is that the university found it in their benefit to capitulate the first time. What would need to change auch that they didn't capitulate a second?