{"id":95422,"date":"2025-05-12T07:50:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T11:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=95422"},"modified":"2025-05-12T08:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T12:20:15","slug":"gifted-article-what-happened-when-trump-altered-the-deal-with-law-firms-and-universities-taub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/05\/12\/gifted-article-what-happened-when-trump-altered-the-deal-with-law-firms-and-universities-taub\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifted article: &#8220;What Happened When Trump Altered the Deal With Law Firms and Universities&#8221; [Taub]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/06\/world\/europe\/trump-law-firm-universities.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FE8.QdFM.F7OX-5x5-Rmb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What Happened When Trump Altered the Deal With Law Firms and Universities<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from nytimes.com by Amanda Taub; <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>this is a gifted article<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<em>Does the prisoner\u2019s dilemma still apply when the rules break down?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A few weeks ago, several prominent American universities and law firms found themselves in what seemed to be a\u00a0classic prisoner\u2019s dilemma, courtesy of President Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">His campaign of retribution against law firms that represented or hired his political opponents, and against universities that engaged in \u201cwoke\u201d policies or purportedly fostered antisemitism, was forcing them to make an unappealing choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Those who capitulated and struck an early deal with the White House, it seemed, might be spared the worst of Mr. Trump\u2019s wrath, but at the cost of\u00a0jeopardizing their independence. Standing up to the president risked even harsher punishment, particularly if other institutions stayed silent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Columbia University made a deal with the administration. So did some of the largest law firms in the country. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Recent changes, however, suggest that the dilemma is starting to look very different.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>In the real world, however, instead of rewarding those who capitulated early, the Trump administration pressured them even more.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<span data-offset-key=\"bo5hu-0-0\">\u201cCapitulation has a track record,\u201d said Ms. Saun<\/span><span data-offset-key=\"bo5hu-0-1\">ders, \u201cand it\u2019s not pretty.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Happened When Trump Altered the Deal With Law Firms and Universities &#8212; from nytimes.com by Amanda Taub; this is a gifted article Does the prisoner\u2019s dilemma still apply when the rules break down? A few weeks ago, several prominent American universities and law firms found themselves in what seemed to be a\u00a0classic prisoner\u2019s dilemma, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,825,74,285,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-changing-environment","category-law-schools","category-leadership","category-legislation-legislatures","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95422"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95427,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95422\/revisions\/95427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}