After reading this article from The Guardian, the following main points become clear:
- The article is criticizing the Trump administration of practicing Orwellian values by threatening to slash federal funding to a joint Duke University- University of North Carolina Chapel Hill that places focus on “Love and Desire in Modern Iran” rather than educating American dominance over the region
- These campuses also criticize Israeli policy, which is also viewed in the article as further reasoning that the government is responding harshly to the new curriculum
- This incident draws comparisons to the true meaning of “Orwellian” due to how the government is attempting to censor information being spread between two universities