‘Only Nazis ban books’: on the frontlines with students fighting Trump over higher education

Documentary First They Came for My College goes inside the fight for academic freedom at Florida’s New College It took a half century to build New College into a sanctuary of independent thought and less than a year to destroy it. In 2023 the beloved Florida liberal arts school became state governor Ron DeSantis’s latest target in his so-called war on woke. DeSantis decimated the school’s trustee board and installed a cabal of rightwing cronies, aiming to transform it into a conservative inst...

By Owen Myers