I feel like this is a wild mis-characterisation. American isn't in danger of becoming a victim; America is trying to suppress academic pursuits and intellectualism. It is politically inconvenient, which means it needs to be eradicated.
Has been happening since 2015, and in such scales that "going expat" is synonymous to "moving to Berlin".
Vote for republicans => get red state policies.
Trump won the popular vote. America is trying very hard to become one big red state.
Red states have had the worst outcomes for generations but they keep going back to republicans. The reasons escape me. The Civil War was basically southerners strongly preferring to use slaves instead of modernizing.
Maybe China will motivate them to get their act together.
It's inevitable, and it has little to do with Trump.
I saw a version of the chart in this document about 10 years ago. https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/China-is-Fast...
I wonder how the academic brain drain will affect the replicability crisis?
I'm assuming if they end up in Salamanca U it will get worse, but don't really know...
The correct play for Harvard is to make no changes to their enrollment polices, and then fight the Trump administration in court.
banning Harvard from enrolling international students is a pretty clear signal to elite intellectual capital that the US is no longer the obvious place to study. Trump 2.0 is fascinating social experiment - can reducing aggregate brainpower lead to better outcomes for the country? Not a rhetorical question, being smart is not the only way to win
Reading trough the comments, it seems Harvard is the only university in the US. Didn't know that.. :-D
To where will these scientists go? Europe, only those willing to accept much lower wages and more bureaucracy. China, unlikely to even accept them. Rest of the world, far fewer resources and often far more doubtful regimes.
https://archive.is/2025.05.23-060333/https://www.economist.c...