New Books in Education · Marshall Poe
Sarah McLaughlin, "Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025)
·42 min·3 clips
Chinese students in the U.S. fear surveillance from classmates and consulates, risking their safety for speaking out.
As heard by us
A careful look at how censorship pressures can shape what universities are willing to say aloud.
The episode stays with a hard question: how censorship can move through higher education when universities are weighing speaker disinvitation fights, student sensitivities, and pressure on scholars.
Why you'd press play
If you want a clear map of censorship inside higher education, start here.
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