Below is my column in The Hill on Harvard faculty organizing in opposition to the Trump Administration’s measures targeting the university for failure to protect Jewish students and its lack of diversity of viewpoints on campus. Despite being a vocal critic of Harvard’s culture of orthodoxy, I have encouraged the Administration to moderate some of these measures and oppose the denial of tax-exempt status of the university. However, the Harvard faculty members may want to sit this one out. They are not helping their cause.
Here is the column:
Harvard faculty members are finally upset about free speech and viewpoint intolerance. Hundreds of professors signed a letter of outrage over what they called an attack on the “rights of free expression, association, and inquiry” in higher education.
The cause for this outcry is the threat to end the university’s tax exempt status, freezing federal grants, and other punitive measures. Some of those measures raise serious concerns over academic freedom and free speech.
The problem is that Harvard faculty members have spent decades denying those rights to teachers and students alike.
There is an almost comical lack of self-awareness among Harvard faculty members who express concern about protecting viewpoint diversity and academic integrity. The letter gives off that same queasy feeling as when CBS morning host Gayle King insisted she is an astronaut, just like Alan Shepard, due to her 10-minute jaunt in space on the Blue Origin. One is just left speechless, looking awkwardly at one’s shoes.
Many of these signatories have been entirely silent for years as departments purged their ranks of conservatives to create one of the most perfectly sealed-off echo chambers in all of higher education. Harvard ranks dead last for free speech, awarded a 0 out of 100 score last year by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. There has been no outcry about this from most of these professors.
There has long been a culture of intolerance at Harvard. Just last month, Harvard Professor Timothy McCarthy called upon the university to fire any faculty who do not support the use of “gender-affirming care” on children.
Just last year, the president of the Student Advisory Committee of Harvard University’s Institute of Politics called for the express abandonment of nonpartisanship as a touchstone of the institute after President Trump’s second election.
Dean of Social Science Lawrence Bobo recently rejected the notion of free speech as a “blank check” and said that criticizing university leaders like himself or school policies is now viewed as “outside the bounds of acceptable professional conduct.”
The Trump Administration is right to focus on Harvard as an example of all that is wrong with higher education today. Like most universities, Harvard’s faculty runs from the left to the far left. For years, the university has been criticized for extreme ideological bias in hiring and admissions. The faculty merely harrumphed. After all, this is Harvard.
Consider the numbers. In a country with a plurality of conservative voters in the last election, less than 9 percent of the Harvard student body is conservative. Less than 3 percent of the faculty identified as conservative.
That is more than an academic echo chamber. It is an academic sensory deprivation tank.
Harvard faculty have purged conservative faculty for years and created one of the most hostile environments for free speech in all of higher education. Even with the virtual absence of conservative faculty and an overwhelmingly liberal class, only 33 percent of graduating students feel comfortable speaking their minds freely at Harvard.
In a recent debate at Harvard Law School, I debated the respected Professor Randall Kennedy on the lack of ideological diversity at Harvard. I do not consider Kennedy anti-free speech or intolerant. Yet during the debate, I noted the statistics on the vanishing number of conservative students and faculty at Harvard in a country divided quite evenly politically. Kennedy responded that Harvard “is an elite university” and does not have to “look like America.”
The problem is that Harvard does not even look like Massachusetts, which is nearly 30 percent Republican. At the law school, only a tiny number of faculty members agree with the views of the majority of the Supreme Court and roughly half of the federal judiciary.
For the record, I have criticized the threat of removing Harvard’s tax-exempt status and other measures that threaten free speech. However, as I discuss in my book “The Indispensable Right,” there are ways to force greater diversity without curtailing academic freedom. That includes federal and state governments withholding government funding from these schools until there is greater diversity and tolerance on campuses.
For years, these administrators and professors have shown an abundance of arrogance and a paucity of concern over free speech. They showed little concern for how they were damaging this historic institution. In just one generation, higher education is in a free fall across the country as professors pursued ideological over institutional interests. If universities were conventional corporations, virtually every university president and board in the country would be removed for violation of their fiduciary duties.
But there is no such fiduciary obligation in education. Liberal presidents, boards, and faculty have eliminated most dissenting voices to their agendas. Indeed, many Harvard faculty would sooner bulldoze every building to the ground than restore true ideological diversity to their departments or abandon biased hiring and admissions.
Harvard spent millions fighting to defend their use of race in admissions — including discrimination against Asians in a shockingly demeaning and dehumanizing manner — until it lost before the Supreme Court in 2023. In the meantime, the university has been forced to introduce remedial, high-school-level math courses for its students due to falling scholastic standards.
Of course, none of that history is mentioned in the letter. Instead, one signatory to the Harvard letter, Kennedy School professor Archon Fung, explained that “It is a very predictable pattern that authoritarian governments go after two institutions first, which is the media and universities.” It was a telling argument. Much like academia, journalism schools abandoned objectivity and neutrality in favor of advocacy journalism. As a result, revenue and readers are plunging as citizens turn away from the mainstream echo chamber in favor of new and independent media.
Fung further argued, “We’re one of the two or three pillars that are really, really important for free discussion and inquiry in a democratic society, which is the beating heart of a democracy.”
It is precisely the free discussion and inquiry that Harvard, in maintaining its orthodox culture, has denied to conservatives and libertarians.
When it comes to the unjustifiable cancellation of its tax-exempt status, many of us will continue to argue for moderation in dealing with Harvard. The last thing we need in this debate is the help of the Harvard faculty.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Tax exemptions are a PRIVILEGE. They are, in fact, a privilege that I would prefer not be extended to ANY individual or group, but that does not change the primary analysis. Revocation of a privilege granted by government cannot, by definition, be implicated as an unconstitutional infringement of free speech, or any other constitutionally guaranteed right.
I’m a little bit confused on Prof. Turley’s take on all this: Harvard — like many other colleges and universities — is a private institution. So, . . . where does it require that private institutions must have diverse outlooks? If Harvard wants to be a forthrightly liberal, leftist school, both in its administration and in its faculty, I’m really having difficulty seeing Turley’s problem with that. If an institution wants to be a “propaganda mill” for a certain viewpoint, isn’t that their right? Professor Turley, please, explain!
I think the issue is not that they are not permitted to do so, but that why should they have a tax exemption? They receive the benefits of taxes – such as national defense, fire and police protection, and physical infrastructure, to name a few – so why should they be able to get all of that for free, while foisting the burden of paying for it all onto others, who are much less able to pay? If the government is going to single out a few extraordinarily valuable institutions to get such a privilege, shouldn’t it be able to at least ensure that those institutions are not propaganda mills?
#. Sure, that the reason they hide behind speech and btw preach to students that white Christians are hillbillies and marry their brothers and sisters.
Harvard is infiltrated by the KGB for 50 years. Commies bent on destruction of the US internally. Msm also, government also, judiciary also . The faculty is a set of tools and fools.
I think JT recently read a book on how great Mao’s Cultural Revolution turned out in the 1970s. So he is trying to get on the good graces of DJT to run the re-education of anybody, or any institution that does not conform to the new idea of what “freedom”, “christian”, “good will”, and “fairness” mean.
#. Not new, commie, it’s the long work of the soviets and you’re demoralized. It won’t matter what is shown to you, you can’t see it nor overcome it.
They can avoid most of this by not taking any federally subsidized student loans and by not accepting any federal monies whatsoever, including research dollars. They still, however, if they seek accreditation, must adhere to federal discrimination laws such as Title IX and must do the same with the legality of employment.
They are not, as it appears, developing students who can argue both sides of an issue but rather promoting a singular ideology.
This is an option they can seek.
Nah, they’re are subject to laws. Next time they take a building, build a camp, send in the national guard.
Their scarves are kkk hoods or German brown shirts. Soviet commies.
@ Matthew W.I. Dunn
If you want our taxpayer money to be given to you – meaning Harvard – it comes with strings attached. That’s not limited to universities – it also applies to federal grants to cities and states, and even to private contractors.
Harvard is certainly free to be a “propaganda mill,” if it wants to be – but Harvard has not right to tax money.
And that’s true of anyone who wants federal tax money.
For example – Hillsdale College does not take federal tax money.
Not hard to understand.
“AMERICAN FREEDOM—NOT DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT”
Harvard is private property over which only the owner may “claim and exercise” dominion.
Congress may not tax for education, as Congress has the power to tax only for debt, defense, and “general welfare”—that being basic infrastructure such as roads, water, post office, electricity, internet, sewer, etc.
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“[Private property is] that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.”
– James Madison
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5th Amendment
No person shall be…deprived of…property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
#. No. There’s a law firm refusing to hire Jewish people because they’re a Palestinian law firm. Ok? It’s private. Does being private exempt businesses, institutions from lawful conduct? The Palestinians harass the Jewish people at the firm until they quit. Ok?
You just amended the Constitution, Einstein!
Therein lies your problem; the communist “dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e., hired help)” is not available to you in free America.
Unconstitutional legislation is unconstitutional when it is passed and when an attempt is made to enforce it.
It’s not bias, it’s freedom.
#. Forced integration is unconstitutional?
Turley is basically enabling the administration’s bullying of the school. Turley knows Harvard is well within it’s right to keep a largely left leaning faculty. He’s using the schools left leaning tendencies as a spring board for his leftists-are-anti-free-speech narrative. He’s shilling for his book and the Fox News narrative. That’s pretty much it. Notice he doesn’t say the same thing about Liberty University which is very right leaning. He doesn’t demand a more balanced faculty and greater viewpoint diversity despite the fact that it is also a private school.
What a clown you are. Liberty University is well known and holds itself out as a very conservative school
Harvard holds itself out to be an elite school of diverse thinkers. Eighteen year olds don’t know the difference until they are there and caught up the camaraderie and pride of being a “Vardian.”
Two different (?) takes on Harvard:
“I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.” (William F. Buckley – although he was a Yale man)
“In every disaster throughout American history, there always seems to be a man from Harvard in the middle of it.” -Thomas Sowell
Another case of “The Jew cries out in pain as he strikes you.”
How many Jewish students have been abducted by a half-dozen mask-wearing fed goons, thrown into an unmarked van, and had their hands and ankles chained?
How may have been shot, like the Palestinian students in Vermont?
How many have been stabbed to death, like the boy in (I believe) Ohio?
Netanyahu, Smotrich, and Ben-Gvir claim to represent all Jews as they slaughter their way through Gaza, the West Bank, southern Syria and southern Lebanon. And if you’re not protesting the genocide, then you’re saying that those ghouls DO represent you.
Hey Jew hater, I refer you to October 7th 2023, the past 80years of Arabs attacking rather than sitting, Germany on the 40s, and time immemorial.
Hey Jew Hater, name an arab state with Jews allowed to live among their people. Remember when Bill Clinton came close to a deal with both sides and then the Pals walked away? Remember when they were given autonomy in Gaza and took billions in aid and built tunnels and weapons?
You started a war, you are losing the war and you should pay as every aggressor has paid for thousands of years.
99.8% of the world’s population doesn’t suck blood from infants’ penises. Why do YOU? Go back to Poland with that shit.
That is an unusual type of disgusting and forbidden circumcision. How prominent is it in your family to throw gays and sisters off the roof? How common is it for you or your children to blow up school buses? Is your level of education, how to put on a suicide vest? Do you sleep with your mother?
You post under anonymous, are all the members of your family cowards?
Are you truly comparing Jews to illegal criminal thugs running wild and unfettered in our streets? Are you really that plain stupid?
Trying your prog conflating of apples with oranges doesn’t work except on the crowd that thinks The View is panel of intellectuals, Katy Perry is an astronaut, and a man Ina dress is a woman.
Go back to your bubble and celebrate brain damage.
I guess I should have also mentioned the Jewish guy in Florida “running wild and unfettered” who shot two Israelis because he thought they were Palestinians.
The Jewish students to whom you refer are, by and large, US citizens and NOT advocating for the complete annihilation of a sovereign nation and an entire group of people, as well as the destruction of the USA. The same cannot be said of the Palestinian students who we so graciously allowed into our country under the premise of education. When invited into a home, it is best not to attack and insult your host. Just saying.
The Hamas Declaration of Principles, drafted in 2017, endorses the two-state solution on the 1967 borders. It is Israel that refuses to accept a Palestinian state and peace. The Likud party platform, drafted in 1977, states in its first paragraph “between the sea and the river Jordan there will be only Israeli sovereignty.”
Lying as usual. Any competent person who is not stupid can look up this information and see what a nutcase and drunk this liar is.
#. Israel is and has been unrelentingly attacked from its beginning. Yes, peace would be wonderful. If your neighbor came into your home everyday and beat you would there come a day when you’d fight back?
There is such bad blood now, peace is probably improbable.
Israel began the Nakba before it was even a country! David Ben-Gurion (born “David Grun” in Poland) approved “Plan Dalet”, an ethnic cleansing blueprint drafted by his Haganah terrorist group, on March 10, 1948 (Israel became a country two months LATER). On April 9 Irgun – Menachem Begin’s terrorist group – committed the Deir Yassin Massacre, Note that Israeli citizens elevated BOTH these terrorist leaders to Prime Minister.
#. Even with that interpretation, I guess Israel wanted it’s land back.
You do not know or understand “Plan Dalet.” The Jews were under continuous attack from the Arabs. The Grand Mufti, just a few years earlier, signed a pact with Hitler to exterminate all the Jews and make the Lavant Juden Frei. The surrounding Arab nations were killing Jews and forcing them to leave their homes and property or be murdered.
The next step was that Arab leaders told their people to leave the area and return after the Jews were destroyed. Most left voluntarily. If “Plan Dalet” was an extermination plan, the Jews did a bad job leaving about two million (today) Arabs in the tiny state of Israel and permitting them to occupy seats in the Supreme Court and the Knesset.
Your lack of understanding about what it means to face extermination by a group actively pledging to do so is appalling. The reality is far more complex and different than you seem capable of grasping.
Don’t leave out WWI, Meyers
Your remark is sparse on meaning. Why don’t you tell us what you are trying to say?
#. ROFL… ^^^^ anon.
#. What’s under that mosque in Jerusalem? Yep, King Solomon’s temple. Jesus didn’t visit the mosque. There’s a record you.might have missed.
The mosque has to go.
#. Here or in the middle east?
Archon Fung, it is not a matter ‘authoritarian governments going after two institutions first, which is the media and universities.’ It is a matter busting up monopolies. And the government has accepted and established rules for doing such. The monopolies, in this instance, are those institutions that attempt to establish/maintain dominance in academia via discriminatory and non-competitive practices. The non-competitive aspect being a direct discrimination against competing thoughts or ideas. Such a situation of a biased academia is the very antithesis of what is expected in a balanced education.
You are welcome to associate and engage in that kind of ‘academic’ environment, Archon Fung. However, given Harvard’s proven record of discrimination and its failure to protect minorities, there is no obligation for taxpayers to fund or otherwise support an institution of bigots.
You created your intellectual filth, Harvard, now lie in it on your own dime.
# KGB. Hard working folks.
“… Hundreds of professors signed a letter of outrage over what they called an attack on the “rights of free expression, association, and inquiry” in higher education.
The cause for this outcry is the threat to end the university’s tax exempt status, freezing federal grants, and other punitive measures. Some of those measures raise serious concerns over academic freedom and free speech.
The problem is that Harvard faculty members have spent decades denying those rights to teachers and students alike. …”
Hypocrisy (Faculty, Board, Alumni)
“Just say Anything” to keep that Paycheck rolling in and Duty Free (Tax-Exempt) status intact.
Q.> If I go the the Harvard Student Union and buy a Sweatshirt and a copy of ‘The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in the Age of Rage’ at the Book Store,
Do I get that purchase ‘Duty Free’ ?
Q.> Is ‘anything’ free at Harvard?
#. Could send in the national guard.
#. Pretty doggone bad when the coffers contain 53 billion well invested. Split the cash and build Harvard 2. I doubt the premise that all that was built by the minorities and workers. He!!, it wouldn’t have been built at all because the idea came first.
Surprising the Pope died. The vatican is the richest institution in the world? 🤔.
Turley correctly makes several points regarding free speech, and the lack thereof, at Harvard. Students not feeling comfortable expressing opinions on controversial topics; the lack ideological imbalance among the faculty that in turn stifles diverse dialogue, administrative failures undermines academic freedom.
The key takeaway is Harvard’s suppression of free speech, ideological conformity among faculty, and punishment of dissent have damaged its academic integrity, contributing to a broader crisis in higher education where intellectual diversity is stifled and self-correction is unlikely.
We could spend a great deal of time blowing wind about this technicality etc. Why are we not just bluntly declaring academia a dink hole of putrid, segregated, ideological self-serving indoctrination.
If that’s what they are (and we all know it – well except for those already trained as prog sheep); proclaim loudly that Harvard is free to be what it has become – but not one penny of public funding, tax exemption ( let’s face it, they are not a benign benefactor for America) or grants for research etc.
Make it on your own, Harvard, just like any other business – because that is what you are – a production facility for indoctrinated accomplices in your goal of destroying our nation and it’s culture.
Nations cannot long endure without a cohesive culture based on agreed upon values, morals, language and dedication to that nation.
I would be hard pressed to find a Democrat who could meet that basic standard for a national ethos. Their motto of multicultural self-proclaimed individual notions of moral behavior – you know the carpet bag of prog insanity – that has proven to be the weakness that has brought down empires throughout history.
If we do not squash this prog ideology soon it will consume us irreversibly.
#. It’s the soviets, kgb, infiltrated over 75 years.
Bezmenov
“It also wanted Harvard to revoke recognition of pro-Palestine student organizations, review its academic programs for ideological diversity, and expel students who were involved in a 2024 pro-Palestine protest-related altercation on the Harvard Business School campus.”
This is what Turley is avoiding. Trump demanding Harvard revoke recognition of pro-Palestine groups and expel studetns who exercised their free speech right to protest. How is that not an attack on free speech? These are particularly serious free speech issues and Turley is conveniently and deliberately avoiding it. What a shame.
Trump just decided to pull an additional $1 billion in health research grants to Harvard to force it to capitulate to it’s demands. Here you have the government demanding anti-free speech measures and give government control on what the school can have on it’s curriculum. This is a private school. Where’s Turley’s outrage? It seems he’s more comfortable being a Trump toadie and sycophant than stand for the principles he allegedly holds dear. No wonder his credibility is shot among his peers.
@George
There is a huge irony in your comment.
Trump set out to protect Jewish students against anti-semitism. So you claim, to cut to the chase, that Harvard is somehow entitled to our tax money. No, it isn’t.
In response to Trump’s efforts to protect Jewish student, the prez and faculty of Harvard got their back hairs up about supposed “attacks” and attempt to “abolish free speech and academic freedom” at Harvard.
Rather than negotiate with the administration, Harvard has chosen to do what lefties have been doing – bash Trump. And in the process forego $2 billion in this year’s grants.
Instead, Harvard put out an issue of $750 million in taxable bonds, as reported by WSJ on April 15. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!
In addition, and this is the ultimate irony – the “protesters” at Harvard demanded that Harvard get out of occupied Palestine.
Has Harvard occupied Palestine? What a hoot!!!!!
Here’s one of the links to the “protesters” with a picture demanding that Harvard get out of occupied Palestine:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/10/17/harvard-israel-gaza-hamas-wexner/
Here’s on of the stories about “Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine” from 2024 —
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/14/harvard-encampment-ends/
Elmer, using antisemitism as a pretext to attack free speech of Palestinian protesters is still an attack on free speech.
Why are jewish studetns more special than the rest? Getting harrassed and invonvenienced for a few days merits severe punishment such as expulsion and visa revocation and government seeking to silence dissent ok?
Apparently you seem to think so.
“Rather than negotiate with the administration, Harvard has chosen to do what lefties have been doing – bash Trump. And in the process forego $2 billion in this year’s grants.”
They know bettter than to negotiate with a welsher like Trump. Columbia agreed to Trump’s demands. Did Trump restore the funding cuts? No. How is that a good…negotiation. Trump is not trustworthy and Harvard knows it.
#. Well,George, just fit in black pupils instead of Jewish. Black pupils are feeling uncomfortable because the kkk has taken over. Instead of Yasir Arafat scarves they’re wearing pillow case hoods. Faculty comes to class and preaches the virtues of the kkk.
Send in the national guard next time there’s a camp out.
Harvard has a net worth & more money than what DJT refers to as shithole countries
Net worth does not mean they can use that money. They need it for collateral since they issue bonds to borrow money. Endowments are investments and the principal is never touched. They use the returns on those investments to keep operating or use it for general budget items. Because of Trump’s stupid tariffs every investment firm has lost money, including Harvard and they are not getting the returns they usually do.
Wrong, georgie. The “principal” CAN be touched, but most often, the widely-recognized “spending rule” restricts to 4 to 5 percent in order to maintain a continuing res (principal).
Turley advocating using government coercion to control who universities hire is not surprising.
“The cause for this outcry is the threat to end the university’s tax exempt status, freezing federal grants, and other punitive measures. Some of those measures raise serious concerns over academic freedom and free speech.”
And Turley doesn’t address those concerns at all. What are these punitive measures that Turley seems concerned about besides the revocation of tax exmept status?
Turley conveniently sidesteps any discussion of these measures and goes right into criticism of Harvard’s alleged “purging of conservatives” and their alleged anti-free speech agenda. Trump is directly attacking free speech by way of threats to cut off funding and revoke tax exemptions. He demands Harvard punish students who participate in “illegal protests” and severly punish students who are opposed to Israel’s policies against the Palestinians. Trump wants to squash dissent in schools expecially where schools allow protests against Israel by labeling them antisemitism.
What about Trump’s banning of the AP from White House press briefings because it doesn’t like their point of view? The AP won in court, the judge saying Trump violated the AP’s free speech rights be punishing it for not using terms it preferred. Turley continues to remain dead silent on the issuse. Because that would involve direct critcism of Trump. Turley is avoiding any direct criticsim because he knows MAGA nut jobs and Trump will evicerate him and isolate him from the fold. Something Turley wouldn’t be able to handle. Pitiful.
Apples and oranges with that AP nonsense of yours. Tax payers do not fund AP. They are free to struggle for recognition as a news service just as any other platform that gathers and dispenses data. Their problem was that they only dispensed prog propaganda and they lost their mantel of news generators and slipped down to partisan propagandists for their own ideology.
Why do you try to conflate these issues – because you CANNOT DEFEND academia in their new role of KKK protectors of segregation of thought.
As usual you miss the point. The AP is being punished because it is not conforming to the administration’s demand to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. That’s compelled speech and punishing them for it is a violation of their first amendment rights. The White House is a public building, a federal property belonging to the public. That matters.
“students, like protesting Israel and it’s treatment of Palestinians. “
Which Palestinians. Are you too stupid to respond?
If the current method of change through appeasement isn’t working … quit doubling down on stupidity. The only thing the left understands is power/money. If you do not reduce that then the behavior will never change.
I will focus on two things here. The first is the ridiculous position taken by the Professor that Harvard should be immune from losing its tax exemption. Harvard has an endowment fund approaching $60 billion. Good grief. Yet we are supposed to support it via tax exemption and taxpayer funded grants? The second is the insane argument that Harvard can be coaxed into voluntary acceptance of true freedom of speech, opinion and political expression. Ain’t going to happen.
All Universities and Colleges have tax exemptions. Your position ironically is that of a democrat. Tax the rich, right? They have so much money that they should be taxed and denied exemptions. Maybe we should get rid of all tax exemptions on organizations and the ultra wealthy because they have billions to spare. They don’t need exemptions. Right?
Exactly. Everyone should pay their fair share of taxes.
Can’t you just feel the love from DJT…
I love this man, I would follow him to the ends of the earth. Has there ever been a man so loving? Jesus Christ comes close but not quite. DJT is like a god.
Thank you DJT for the love.
“Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords,
Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country. Happy Easter also to the WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our Nation to continue, an attack so violent that it will never be forgotten! Sleepy Joe Biden purposefully allowed Millions of CRIMINALS to enter our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked, through an Open Borders Policy that will go down in history as the single most calamitous act ever perpetrated upon America. He was, by far, our WORST and most Incompetent President, a man who had absolutely no idea what he was doing — But to him, and to the person that ran and manipulated the Auto Pen (perhaps our REAL President!), and to all of the people who CHEATED in the 2020 Presidential Election in order to get this highly destructive Moron Elected, I wish you, with great love, sincerity, and affection, a very
Happy Easter!!!”
The real irony is that Harvard is doing what it has criticized: A presidential administration that brings in “like-minded” persons to carry out an agenda.
Unfortunately, so had the Pope (Francis). (Estovir will hate me for this.) I do not know that many people know this, but he (Pope Francis) greatly increased the number of cardinals AND the number of voting cardinals for the next papacy– all in his “like-minded” image and to carry out his Plan to grow the congregation.
To do so, he (the pope) did not stay in his lane, but delved into politics and gave the papal blessing to transsexualism, homosexuality, and illegal immigration.
I do believe in a God, and in living a moral and spiritual life. But. It’s one thing to love all humanity and send to them/share your blessings. It’s another thing, under the auspices of good and holy religion, to really have the motive of self-preservation and power/growth, effected by making those non-contributors who ride on others’ coattails believe that they deserve the same -or more– in unearned benefits.
Well well, Turley ragging on Harvard, big surprise. He seems to be quite fond of making the false claim that Harvard has “purged” conservatives from faculty and is seeking ways to force the school to hire more? That’s very DEI of Turley.
He’s quite disingenious with this argument and he is taking great pains not to directly criticize Trump or name him directly when he talks about the “other measures” Turley disagrees with. It’s funny he doesn’t mention what these “other measures” are.
Trump is punishing Harvard and demanding it compert to HIS wants. Harvard is a private school and Turley seems to leave this particular fact out. As a private school Harvard can choose to run however it sees fit, even if it means to run a more left leaning faculty.
Turley wants to force Harvard to ‘expand’ view point diversity without the imput from students. It’s students that dictate what they want in their schools and it seems Harvard alumns prefer a more left leaning school. Let’s face it, conservative ideas suck and they have nothing new to. offer.
Trump is using the threat of withholding funds to squash dissent and force compliance and demanding harsh punishement when different points of view are expressd by students, like protesting Israel and it’s treatment of Palestinians. Turley still remains silent on Trump’s deliberate attacks on free speech through threats of funding cuts, and visa revocations.
Turley should focus more on the obvious Trump administration’s attacks on free speech before criticizing Harvard. He’s just lending a hand in the bullying of Harvard which has stood up to Trump.
Interestingly enough, the letter that Harvard received from the Trump administration was not supposed to have been sent. As usual Trump’s incompent administration keeps making things worse for itself and Turley happily rides along just as oblivious as the moron in chief.
Another ill-educated lie from georgie, who gets his knowledge from media headlines. If he bothered to READ and COMPREHEND, he wpuld know that the main signatory to the letter,, GSA’s Gruenbaum, said that the letter was sent by mistake—NOT because of a rescission of content, but because it was “premature” while talks had been continuing. If an agreement was not to be reached, then the letter would go out. Get it straight, georgie boy and https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/19/nyt-reports-trump-letter-error/stop your propaganda.
Anonymous, you’re admitting to the administration’s continuing incompetence. BTW, what’s the lie? Nothing I’ve said is false.
Censorship – Remember all the talk (still a lot of talk) about how Demos censor…
“In 2019, Dr. Kevin Hall authored arguably the most important study—a randomized controlled trial, the gold standard—showing that ultra-processed foods (UPF) lead to weight gain. He then did the next natural thing: run studies on why. Was it because UPFs are addictive or something else? A follow-up study of his found that UPF may not be inherently addictive, as indicated by the brain’s dopamine response. Another study, still in progress, suggests that UPF is problematic due to its high calorie density and hyperpalatability (heightened taste pleasure).
These follow-up studies directly contradict RFK Jr.’s narrative—that UPF is addictive. Hall was initially restricted from publicly sharing the results. Once he was allowed to comment, the NIH press office edited his response, downplaying the significance. So, he announced his early retirement, citing censorship. He has been at NIH for 21 years.”
Yea, that would be DJT and RFK Jr doing the censoring.
So what Turley is saying is: what goes around, comes around. In the past, Harvard faculty have denied free speech to conservatives, so now they are just getting what they dished out. Except, they’re not. In this case, we have the president of the US, someone sworn to uphold and protect the Constitution, using financial and political threats against universities because of some specious charge of “anti-Semitism.” This is a political attack on Harvard, and all universities that refuse to stop the anti-genocide protests. A US president is violating the Constitution on behalf of a foreign country that is committing genocide. Turley has been silent for too long on this issue.
That is a take so bad that all you can receive is participation points for it.
” the president of the US, someone sworn to uphold and protect the Constitution, using financial and political threats against universities”
If the universities were faced with protestors running around with nooses saying the N-word, would your words be the same?
The taxpayer should not be taxed to support agencies that support racist or antisemitic activities. Review your words and see if you wouldn’t categorize them as dumb.