Donald Trump has been using the power of the federal purse to “persuade” colleges and universities to adhere to his executive orders on matters such as prohibiting men in women’s sports and doing more to prevent the rampant antisemitism we’ve seen on so many campuses since the Israel-Hamas war broke out.
We’ve seen the president pull funding—or at least threaten to—at Columbia University, the University of Maine, Cornell, UPenn and more.
Now Harvard University is pushing back. Once considered among the premiere academic institutions in the world, their reputation has taken tremendous hits as they’ve been accused of racism in their admissions policies, they tripled-down on divisive DEI ideology, their president resigned amid plagiarism allegations, and perhaps most importantly, they allowed antisemitism and pro-Hamas terrorist ideology to rage…
