Kyle Harrison
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Authoritarians in the Academy
Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech
- Author
- Sarah McLaughlin
- Published
- 2025
- Pages
- 344
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: McLaughlin, who works on international free-expression cases at FIRE, on what happens when universities build campuses and partnerships inside authoritarian states: the censorship comes home.
Where I heard about it
- Sarah McLaughlin (@sarahemclaugh) — the author’s own publication-day post on X, August 2025: “Publication day! AUTHORITARIANS IN THE ACADEMY is officially out. Thanks to everyone, especially my colleagues at @TheFIREorg and my publisher @JHUPress.”
Connections
- Free Speech — the stake.
- Higher Education — the institution doing the compromising.
- China — the state most often on the other side of these arrangements.