Trump vs. Universities: Could Research Cuts Kill America’s Innovation Edge?
https://youtu.be/GErc8V77wAE
https://youtu.be/GErc8V77wAE
We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy
Itself
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/opinion/universities-science-trump-china.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/opinion/universities-science-trump-china.html
History Warns us About the Dangers of Trump’s Brain Drain
https://time.com/7298847/history-dangers-trumps-brain-drain
https://time.com/7298847/history-dangers-trumps-brain-drain
How Trump Is Undoing 80 Years of American Greatness
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/opinion/trump-manhattan-project.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/opinion/trump-manhattan-project.html
Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End by Ross Andersen
https://www.aol.com/news/scientific-empires-end-110000781.html
Three-fourths of American scientists who responded to a recent poll by the journal Nature said they are considering leaving the country. They don’t lack for suitors. China is aggressively recruiting them, and the European Union has set aside a €500 million slush fund to do the same. National governments in Norway, Denmark, and France—nice places to live, all—have green-lighted spending sprees on disillusioned American scientists. The Max Planck Society, Germany’s elite research organization, recently launched a poaching campaign in the U.S., and last month, France’s Aix-Marseille University held a press conference announcing the arrival of eight American “science refugees.”
https://www.aol.com/news/scientific-empires-end-110000781.html
Three-fourths of American scientists who responded to a recent poll by the journal Nature said they are considering leaving the country. They don’t lack for suitors. China is aggressively recruiting them, and the European Union has set aside a €500 million slush fund to do the same. National governments in Norway, Denmark, and France—nice places to live, all—have green-lighted spending sprees on disillusioned American scientists. The Max Planck Society, Germany’s elite research organization, recently launched a poaching campaign in the U.S., and last month, France’s Aix-Marseille University held a press conference announcing the arrival of eight American “science refugees.”
What If the US Isn’t the World’s Most Innovative
Country?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-01/what-if-the-us-isn-t-the-world-s-most-innovative-country
The question of who is winning the innovation race is more complicated than it appears — and the answer is more interesting.
China’s Role in Global Innovation Is Changing
https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2025/aug/china-role-global-innovation-changing
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-01/what-if-the-us-isn-t-the-world-s-most-innovative-country
The question of who is winning the innovation race is more complicated than it appears — and the answer is more interesting.
https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2025/aug/china-role-global-innovation-changing