On Wednesday, July 23, 2025 Columbia University announced what it called a "resolution" and "agreement" with the Trump administration. I don't want to get into the details of this "deal", or the sagacity of believing that an "agreement" with the Trump administration is worth anything. In the broader scheme of things, the disgraceful dirty washing of one private University in New York is worth thinking about less for its own importance than the for the broader issue it raises, in this case "governance by deal".
In the broader scheme of things, the disgraceful dirty washing of one private University in New York is worth thinking about less for its own importance than the for the broader issue it raises, in this case "governance by deal". This is brought to the fore by a typically excellent piece by my colleague David Pozen at the Balkinization legal blog. The original is here.
The original is here.