As John wrote yesterday evening, Harvard declared that it would not “surrender its independence” after the Trump administration demanded significant changes in policies relating to the anti-Semitic intimidation campaigns on its campus. Hours later, they received good news …
… the White House thinks Harvard should be independent as well:
Harvard University said Monday it would resist the Trump administration’s demands to change its governance structure over campus antisemitism concerns, saying the government is overstepping its authority.
Hours later the government announced a $2.26 billion freeze of Harvard’s multiyear grants and contracts.
Do they teach FAFO at Harvard? It might become a necessary field of study in this administration.
This is a curious kind of “independence” that Harvard claims to defend. If Harvard had been independent in the first…
