When starting a reform process, the rule generally is: You only need to fire one person. After that, word gets around quickly.
It only took the Trump administration one action to impose the funding equivalent of a termination. Columbia University got the “set an example” treatment late last week. The White House announced Friday that they would immediately cancel $400 million in grants and other funding. The new Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism (JTFCAS) warned that they could eventually end billions of dollars in financial support for the school’s refusal to defend its Jewish students and faculty from organized anti-Semitic intimidation campaigns.
That got the attention of two other Poison Ivies yesterday. Harvard University, whose former president Claudine Gay told Congress that anti-Semitism depended on “context,” decided to impose an…
