Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, New Republic - I was driving my daughter to hockey practice, scrolling through my emails at a stoplight, when a jarring subject line popped up: “Notice of Grant Termination—Effective April 3, 2025”—that is to say, that very day. There it was. The shoe that many of us reliant on federal research funding had been waiting to drop now hit my inbox with a thud: The $60,000 of funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities that I had been awarded to support writing a history of the educational culture wars was gone, ironically itself a casualty of our current clash over knowledge, culture, and politics.
“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration,” acting NEH head Michael McDonald, who stepped into leadership when President Trump pushed the former director to resign, explained in this letter addressed only to “NEH Grantee.” The agency is “repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President’s agenda,” and my “grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government.” More
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