It's reasonable to criticize the excesses of academics. But let's be really clear about what's happening. The vast majority of federal funding for research goes

It's reasonable to criticize the excesses of academics. But let's be really clear about what's happening. The vast majority of federal funding for research goes to medical science and the hard sciences. Relatively little goes to the social sciences. The vast majority of the foreign students and researchers are going into STEM fields. So when the Trump administration makes huge cuts to research funding (something like a 40% cut at NIH and even bigger at NASA) there is a huge, huge impact on scientific and medical research that has absolutely nothing to do with any of the topics that you listed. Same with the arrests and threats to foreign students. The tenured left-wing social science professors will be fine. The young Chinese computer scientist will probably just stay in China and China will get the benefit of their work. The young American neuroscientist will just not have a career in the sciences because funding isn't available and so instead of working on curing brain cancer, they'll be working on data analysis for a marketing company. Cutting research on ovarian cancer because you don't like the fact that the researchers used terms like "women's health" is stupid. Cutting brain cancer research because you don't like the fact that some completely unrelated people at universities are "woke" is even more stupid. You don't like something that Noel Ignatiev said? OK, fair enough. But do you really want to kill the careers of young apolitical cancer researchers because you don't like something that a guy who died in 2019 said 20+ years ago?