Nobel Winner Joseph Stiglitz Denounces Columbia’s Apparent Capitulation to Trump

Joseph Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 .

He was a lead author of the 1995 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize .

After Donald Trump withdrew some $400 million in federal funding from Columbia , Columbia entered negotiations that concluded with the school caving to pressure from the White House .

“I worry that our university may have capitulated to some of the demands coming out of the Trump administration,” he told The Intercept .

Professor says there's a pattern of intimidation, intimidation, and a pattern they’re going after Palestinians , particularly Palestinians .

He says the federal government demanded that the Middle Eastern , South Asian , and African Studies Department at Columbia be placed into academic receivership, essentially that the control of the department be placed outside the department, outside the faculty, for a minimum of five years .

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