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Harvard’s Defiance: Analyzing the Conflict with Trump

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All the president wants is for the university to obey the law

All the president wants is for the university to obey the lawMike Gonzalez – “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future,” America’s philosopher laureate Yogi Berra once said. Wise counsel, but it’s difficult to see how Harvard wins its war of wills with President Donald Trump.

The oldest and most hallowed university in the country decided to fight Trump after he made a series of demands in April, most of which were reasonable. The reasons why they are fighting aren’t crystal clear, but they are discernable.

One could be sheer hubris. Harvard is Harvard; it thinks Trump a rube and cannot give in to him. In that case, its fate is sealed. Hubris comes before fall. Continue reading →

Impact of DEI Initiatives: A Harvard Researcher’s Perspective

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Harvard Researcher: the University Is “Totally Corrupted”

Impact of DEI Initiatives: A Harvard Researcher's PerspectiveChristopher F. Rufo, Ryan Thorpe – This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

City Journal [CJ]: Give us a sense of the ideological landscape and your experience at Harvard.

Omar Sultan Haque [Haque]: Unlike many others at Harvard, I have no dramatic cancellation, or intellectual persecution, or struggle session to report. I stopped teaching at Harvard last year primarily because of its anti-truth-seeking culture, radical left-wing bias, racial and gender discrimination, and prevailing anti-intellectualism, which made continued participation a poor use of time.

There are exceptions, but on the whole Harvard has strayed from its foundational mission of unbiased truth-seeking and has become ideologically driven, too often resembling a secular church or a partisan think tank.

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Professor Jacobson Discusses Roots of Education Crisis Beyond Harvard

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Cornell Law Professor Says Harvard is Just a Symptom of a Much Bigger Problem in All of Education (VIDEO)

Cornell Law Professor Says Harvard is Just a Symptom of a Much Bigger Problem in All of EducationMike LaChance – Professor William Jacobson teaches law at Cornell and also publishes the Legal Insurrection blog. He recently appeared on FOX News to offer his thoughts about the ongoing battle between Harvard and the Trump administration.

Jacobson addresses the issue of antisemitic protests on campuses and suggests that Trump is justified in threatening Harvard’s tax-exempt status, but then goes further.

Jacobson suggests that what people are seeing at Harvard is just a symptom of a much larger problem in all of education. He notes that the radical left has taken over education at multiple levels and that schools have an anti-American problem and an anti-capitalism problem. Continue reading →

Tenured Radicals: Unraveling the Crisis in Academic Culture

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The Politicized Mind: How the University Lost Its Way

The Politicized Mind: How the University Lost Its WayRoger Kimball – Academia is once again in the news. Donald Trump’s recent commencement address at the University of Alabama, where he said that America’s “next chapter will not be written by The Harvard Crimson, it will be written by you—the Crimson Tide,” sounded one leitmotif of the new, Trump-inspired populism that is washing over the academic establishment. Trump’s announcement that he was seeking to remove Harvard’s tax-exempt status sounded another.

These days, whenever the public’s attention is roused by academia, the oculus of media scrutiny turns up references to my book Tenured Radicals, first published more than 30 years ago but subsequently expanded and updated several times. Continue reading →

Trump Challenges Harvard’s Ideological Exclusivity

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Harvard shunned conservatives. It deserves to be defunded by Trump

Harvard shunned conservatives. It deserves to be defunded by TrumpNicole Russell – President Donald Trump has escalated his fight with America’s premiere university by freezing billions in federal grants and threatening to revoke Harvard’s nonprofit tax status. The Trump administration has even threatened to block the university’s ability to enroll foreign students, who are a lucrative source of revenue for colleges across the United States.

Trump’s fight with Harvard escalated after the university rejected the administration’s demands that it change hiring and enrollment policies to elevate merit-based admissions and employment over efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion. Continue reading →