Fostering a Vibrant Marketplace of Ideas Apparently Means Imposing Your Ideas by Force

The Trump administration's latest free-speech innovation is attempting to force colleges and universities to agree to a series of demands in exchange for preferential access to federal funding. The demands in this proposed higher education "compact" with nine schools, including Vanderbilt University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Southern California and University of Virginia, include banning the use of race or sex in hiring and admissions, prohibiting employees from expressing political views, and "fostering a vibrant marketplace of ideas on campus."

To create that "vibrant marketplace", signatories must "commit themselves to revising governance structures as necessary to create such an environment, including but not limited to transforming or abolishing institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas."

There are certain words and phrases associated with a government forcing people to parrot its propaganda. I'm blanking on them right now, but I believe there were some high-profile examples from the 20th century, and there may even be a country or two today with the kind of leader – I'm blanking on this word, too – who punishes his people if they say things he doesn't like.

What are these words and phrases for this type of situation? I don't know what my problem is today. I don't think they include "marketplace", but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe a marketplace is where the shopkeeper threatens to take your money if you don't go stand and look at a shelf full of things you don't want. That's not how my local hardware store works, but again, maybe I'm the oddball here. Maybe it's completely normal to walk into a hardware store looking for a washer for a leaky spigot and be greeted at the door by the shopkeeper who, interestingly enough, is brandishing a gun and ordering you over to a shelf of used trimmer accessories, air filters, gas cans and band saw blades.

I generally prefer perusing the merchandise of my choice and not having a gun pointed at me whilst shopping, but I understand that this is America in 2025 and things are fluid and you've got to break some eggs to make an omelet etc. etc. and that we need these marketplaces, see, and we'll get them by hook or by crook, see, by the barrel of a gun if necessary, see, because what you don't know may kill you and it may just be the government's right to kill you anyway if you won't listen.