This almost sounds like a joke: A college president and a ‘public’ news organization walk into a bar to complain about their common enemy. At least one of them decided to be somewhat honest about it, but only somewhat.
Alan Garber, president of a beleaguered Harvard University, sat down with Steve Inskeep of an equally beleaguered NPR, both facing potentially ruinous litigation with the Trump administration. As if that scenario doesn’t raise some conflict-of-interest eyebrows, Garber’s admissions should. NPR leads the news report on the interview as “Harvard’s president says they should ‘stand firm’,” but Garber concedes right at the start that Harvard is at fault, even while avoiding the consequences (emphases mine):
Alan Garber: In my view, the federal government is saying that we need to address antisemitism in particular, but it has raised other issues,…
