{"id":36957,"date":"2025-03-25T19:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/we-call-on-columbia-to-stand-up-to-authoritarianism-open-letter\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T19:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T19:01:25","slug":"we-call-on-columbia-to-stand-up-to-authoritarianism-open-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/we-call-on-columbia-to-stand-up-to-authoritarianism-open-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"We call on Columbia to stand up to authoritarianism | Open letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How Columbia responds to this attack will determine whether universities remain independent or end up serving as extensions of an authoritarian state<\/p>\n<p>To the Columbia University administration,<\/p>\n<p>As journalists who were trained by Columbia University\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism, and who are steeped in America\u2019s long traditions of free speech and academic freedom, we write to you to express our horror at the events of the past week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/mar\/25\/open-letter-columbia-university-trump-administration-authoritarianism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Columbia responds to this attack will determine whether universities remain independent or end up serving as extensions of an authoritarian state To the Columbia University administration, As journalists who were trained by Columbia University\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism, and who are steeped in America\u2019s long traditions of free speech and academic freedom, we write &#8230; <a title=\"We call on Columbia to stand up to authoritarianism | Open letter\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/we-call-on-columbia-to-stand-up-to-authoritarianism-open-letter\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about We call on Columbia to stand up to authoritarianism | Open letter\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}