Both my parents graduated from Harvard, as did one of my siblings. At the time of his admission, my father was admitted despite his Jewish heritage because at the time, the prestigious university was as fond of admitting Jews as it is of admitting Asians today.
Harvard was WASP heaven then, and it is woke heaven now. Neither extreme is admirable, but on balance, the woke are miles worse than the WASPs. The WASPs were obsessed with protecting their social class, while the woke are convinced that the world would be a better place if only their class enemies were dead. If you have to choose between arrogance and adherence to a murderous ideology, I guess you have to take arrogance.
Harvard has never been the paragon of moral contemplation that it imagined itself to be, but it contributed, on balance, a lot to America. Many of the greatest scholars in the…
