I’m not sure I support this idea, which Donald Trump floated a year ago and is circulating again on social media today. But I sure do like it.
At the time, American college campuses had exploded in anti-Semitic demonstrations in support of Hamas after their October 7 atrocities violated yet another US-demande cease-fire. Jewish students and faculty were being harrassed and intimidated off of the campuses, and the administrations did little or nothing to enforce Title VI requirements or restore order. Trump recognized the revulsion of Americans outside the progressive bubble and proposed taxing the massive endowments of universities like Harvard and Columbia, and creating an “American Academy” as a free alternative to the radical-Leftist environments in Academia:
As a political reaction, this…
