“This is a grave moment,” Sally Kornbluth, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote in a message to her campus.More than 5,000 miles away, Wendy Hensel, president of the University of Hawaii, said that it was “reverberating across higher education.”President Donald Tr...

Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Biblio. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily.On May 6, the Texas House Committee on Public Education discussed S.B. 13, a bill seeking to remove from public school libr...