The Trump administration’s assaults on liberty are the kinds of abuses that spurred the American revolution that the nation will commemorate this yearIt’s garnered less attention than the other events of our already wretched new year. But to understand why Renee Nicole Good was killed on Wednesd ay, why the White House has designs on Greenland, and why the people of Venezuela may soon be governed, in effect, by a junta of oil companies backed by the US military, we should also consider an email Martin Peterson, a philosophy professor at Texas AM, received about his course Contemporary Moral Problems last week.His syllabus, he was informed, contained material banned by the college’s board of regents in December – part of the wave of censorship the Trump administration and the Republican party have encouraged at universities across the country. He was given two options: change the syllabus “to remove the modules on race ideology and gender ideology, and the Plato readings that may include these” or teach another course. Continue reading... ...read more read less