The idea that the late night comedy shows are just MSNBC with jokes was on full display on Tuesday’s installment of CBS’s The Late Show. Host Stephen Colbert claimed that the Trump Administration’s recent demands on Harvard were “ridiculous,” “insane,” and “dictatorial,” but Colbert never provided any context for why those demands were given.
Colbert began, “In the face of this authoritarian power grab, one institution just stood up to Trump. Lil’ backstory: For some weeks now, the administration has been trying to MAGA-fy higher education by imposing demands on private universities. And yesterday, Harvard became the first university to refuse to comply with the administration’s requirements.”
More backstory: Harvard, like so many elite colleges in this country, has an anti-Semitism problem. Nevertheless,…
