08
December 2025
Past Event
Authoritarians in the Academy: How Adversaries Infiltrate Higher Education to Threaten Free Speech and National Security

Event will also air live on this page.

 

 

Inquiries: tmagnuson@hudson.org.

Authoritarians in the Academy: How Adversaries Infiltrate Higher Education to Threaten Free Speech and National Security

Past Event
Hudson Institute
December 08, 2025
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08
December 2025
Past Event

Event will also air live on this page.

 

 

Inquiries: tmagnuson@hudson.org.

Speakers:
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Sarah McLaughlin

Senior Scholar of Global Expression, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)

Institutions of higher education in the United States have long benefitted from free and open collaboration with overseas partners. But foreign adversaries like China have exploited this openness to infiltrate American colleges and universities with programs like Confucius Institutes and Chinese Student-Scholars Associations. Beijing also uses generous financial contributions to infuse its propaganda and interests into American campuses. By exploiting America’s education system, the Chinese Communist Party is attacking core American values like free speech and imperiling US national security.

Join Senior Fellow Michael Sobolik for a conversation with Sarah McLaughlin, a senior scholar at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, about her recent book on this subject, Authoritarians in the Academy.

Listen on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

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