Monthly Archives: March 2025

The View From My Office

The Trump administration has announced a cutoff of $400 million in funding to Columbia University, supposedly because of its failure to take action against anti-semitism on the campus. Two months ago one would have assumed that the idea that the … Continue reading

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A Tale of Two Cities

The prospect of massive cuts in US federal government science funding has caused an increase in the usual heated internet debates over science funding. These typically involve people arguing either: “Funding for science research is an unalloyed good that leads … Continue reading

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