The crisis in American science

Abstract

The second regime of Donald J. Trump has decimated federal science and federally supported science to a greater degree than his first regime, unleashing an unprecedented crisis. The authors in this roundtable take a close look at the tortured landscape of science in America and, using historical scholarship and the tools of history, analyze and assess its plight. Topics include nuclear facilities, the role of Silicon Valley oligarchs, Executive Order 14168 on biological sex, climate change and the environmental sciences, science and ideology, responses to regime change, and resistance to the regime, especially by universities.