Perspective: Why Donald Trump’s decision to intervene in campus speech policies is so dangerous
Polly Olson holds up a heart that says “Jesus Loves You” during a March 21 event with President Trump to sign an executive order requiring colleges to certify that their policies support free speech as a condition of receiving federal research grants. By Ada Palmer Ada Palmer is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago and author of the science fiction series Terra Ignota.
Over centuries and across the globe, authorities have found ways to repurpose seemingly benign institutions — passport systems, post offices, hospitals and civilian organizations — to do their censoring without the messy visibility of creating something new. In fact, most of history’s major censorship projects have been carried out by repurposing tools that were not created for the purpose.
Over the next centuries, as the concern over French heresies abated, regional governments realized they could redirect the Inquisition’s now-established apparatus against new perceived enemies. By arranging scapegoat witchcraft trials or accusing political rivals of invented moral crimes, local elites used Inquisition branches to strengthen their interests and silence local resistance.
This led to the Inquisition’s strangest transformation: into a system of proto-copyright. Copyright did not exist in the early days of printing, but when publishers took books to censors as the Church demanded, censors gave them a monopoly license to print that particular book, and make big money selling it. This became the model when England created its first licensing system, which developed into modern copyright.
In many ways, this maneuver stemmed from government action: Since the First Amendment kept the U.S. government from passing laws to restrict communist speech, McCarthy and his allies threatened college and university funding to try to force out communist faculty and students, and pressured organizations such as the MPAA to create blacklists.
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