Secret weapon? Thus far, the Trump administration has deployed plenty of public weapons in the fight to end anti-Semitism and illegal discrimination in Academia, and especially in the Poison Ivies. The most obvious weapon has been money, and that was enough to get Columbia’s attention, if not its full cooperation.
For Harvard, Donald Trump and his team have also deployed tax exemptions and access to foreign students and funds — again, publicly. In fact, as the Wall Street Journal reports this morning, the administration got surprised and infuriated by how public Harvard made it, and now may up the ante:
The Trump administration has grown so furious with Harvard University after a week of escalating dispute between the two sides that it is planning to pull an additional $1 billion of the school’s funding for health research, according to people familiar…
