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	Podcast:		Embedded
	Episode:		The Harvard Plan: The Endless Frontier
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:50:00
	Publish Date:		2025-12-01 11:00:00
	Description:		Universities were not always so vulnerable to the whims of politics. The whole system of taxpayer-funded, university-led scientific research came about at the end of World War II, and was the brainchild of a man named Vannevar Bush. He felt the partnership of government and academics had to be equal in order to yield breakthroughs. Today, the Trump administration is proposing a new “compact” that would make the President the dominant partner. We speak with one of the authors of the Trump compact, May Mailman. Find On the Media every week, here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-media/id73330715 Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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