Připravila Anne Applebaum.
Hovoří Joan Brugge.
Natočeno 2026. Webová premiéra 23. 1. 2026 (Atlantic, 27 min.).
Lit.: Applebaum, Anne: Defund Science, Distort Culture, Mock Education. In web The Atlantic, 23. 1. 2026 (článek + nahrávka k poslechu). – Cit.: It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power.
Joan Brugge has worked for nearly 50 years as a cancer scientist, studying the earliest signs that someone might become sick. Then the Trump administration canceled her lab’s funding. The administration’s attacks on medicine, culture, and education—which include verbal threats and funding cuts—are about more than just budgeting and bravado. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University and the author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. She argues that this effort is part of a larger autocratic project to maintain power. (…)