Below is my column on Fox.com on the escalating fight between Harvard and the Trump Administration. For Harvard, this could prove a case of winning battles and losing a war of attrition.
Here is the column:
Eighty-one years ago, on May 31, 1944, General George Patton walked before the 6th Armored Division before the D-Day invasion and told the troops a simple, inescapable fact about war: “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”
It is a cautionary speech that might well be given in Harvard Square this week as the fight between the university and the Trump administration escalates. By the end of this war (regardless of the outcome), the Trump administration is likely to win even if it loses in the courts.
The Trump administration has committed to total war with Harvard on multiple fronts. It is threatening the school’s tax-exempt status, denying the ability to admit foreign students, freezing grants, and launching a myriad of investigations.
Harvard has responded with its largest deployment since the “Harvard Regiment” left for the Civil War. (It is worth noting that the famed 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry suffered one of the highest casualty rates of any unit in the Union Army).
For the record, I have previously criticized the administration for some of these actions, including the attack on the school’s tax-exempt status, the wholesale freezing of grants, and the blocking of foreign students. These measures undermine both free speech and academic freedom in higher education.
Nevertheless, the Trump administration will prevail in some actions, particularly in the allocation of discretionary grants.
Harvard’s own recent study found that it created an unsafe environment for Jewish students. Harvard also has a documented history of racial discrimination that led to a major Supreme Court ruling a couple of years ago against the use of race in college admissions.
The administration is claiming that Harvard failed to turn over information to regulators on foreign students and has not fully addressed the antisemitism on campus.
Harvard has compelling arguments to make regarding due process and procedural protections.
However, in the end, this is a war of attrition that Harvard will lose.
President Donald Trump has already framed this fight in a way that is politically and financially lethal for Harvard. (In the interest of full disclosure, I have a son studying at Harvard Law School).
This week, Trump suggested that his administration may redirect billions from Harvard to trade schools.
His targeting of foreign students also shows an understanding of the soft underbelly of higher education. Foreign students are the meal ticket for universities. They generally pay full tuition, allowing universities to fund scholarships for other students. Over 27 percent of Harvard’s class is composed of foreign students.
Cutting off both grants and foreign enrollments is a devastating one-two punch, even for a school with Harvard’s massive endowment.
Even if these measures are ultimately rejected in the courts, many researchers and foreign students will view Harvard as a risky choice in the years to come.
More importantly, Harvard can hardly expect much support from the public after years of open hostility toward those who espouse conflicting viewpoints.
As I discuss in my book “The Indispensable Right,” Harvard is not just an academic echo chamber. It is a virtual academic sensory deprivation tank.
In a country with a majority of conservative and libertarian voters, fewer than 9 percent of the Harvard student body and less than 3 percent of the faculty members identify as conservative.
For years, Harvard faculty have brushed away complaints over its liberal orthodoxy, including purging conservative faculty. It has created one of the most hostile schools for free speech in the nation, ranking dead last among universities in annual studies by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).
Only a third of students at Harvard feel comfortable speaking on campus despite being overwhelmingly liberal at an overwhelmingly liberal institution. (The percentage is much higher for the small number of conservative students).
Not long ago, I had a debate at Harvard Law School with Professor Randall Kennedy on the lack of ideological diversity at the school. I respect Kennedy and I do not view him as anti-free speech or intolerant. Yet when I noted the statistics on the vanishing number of conservative students and faculty in comparison to the nation, 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.
The question is whether America will now support Harvard.
The school hopes that the public will rush to its side in this fight in the name of intellectual diversity.
Trump knows that this comes down to the numbers.
At the height of the Civil War, General (and future President) Ulysses S. Grant declared “I intend to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.” Grant knew that he had a greater ability to absorb casualties, whereas even in successful battles, Lee was being drained of men and material.
Trump is clearly willing to fight this out if “it takes all summer” and indeed would be happy to do so if it takes his whole term.
Trump takes the money that was earmarked for Harvard and give it to the trades and trade schools. Better investment to people who would appreciate it.
I second that.
I do hope Trump wins this one for a couple of reasons. However, in this time of stress for Harvard, it has revealed it native form, an elite microcosm with huge resources that has convinced itself of moral and intellectual superiority over the rest of us. In this way, it’s something like a micro-Democratic party, without the good sense to shut-up. Harvard has shown us all what we would see by swishing a venomous insect under a glass – poison leeching out through its exoskeleton. The Harvard president, Alan Garber, is absolutely perfect in his effete attitudes toward not only Trump and Republicans, but all others as well. “We insist on receiving full Federal funding without the need to provide an explanation or justification.”
LOL, sure, cupcake
See ? Boob…
Trump is clearly willing to fight this out if “it takes all summer” and indeed would be happy to do so if it takes his whole term.
Trump is doing exactly what people wanted him to do and those who voted for him want him to do more. DNC/MSM tolls continue to plummet while Trump’s numbers are either stationary or growing.
No one in DNC/MSM circles was talking about fraud in federal government, never mind Ivy League schools. Trump is now addressing both. It wasn’t since the 1990s when US House Speaker Newt Gingrich, contra Bill Clinton in the White House, Congress passed initiatives that mandated welfare beneficiaries need to find work. Thus in some ways Trump has brought back Gingrich’s Contract With America talking points. Just like during the time under Bill Clinton, all Democrats/MSM can muster today in response to Trump’s Federal spending cuts is “Republicans are throwing grandma from the ledge of a cliff”. The DNC/MSM are the first to grandstand about killing a baby in utero, decapitate a baby shorty after delivering her (Democrat Govenor Ralph Northam of Virginia), mutilate the bodies of children over pronouns, with even one Democrat SCOTUS Justice stating publicly xer/they/it could not define the word woman for not being a
meritorious nominee with brains“biologist”.The DNC/MSM credibility is in the toilet, Trump is empowered to tackle what many of us in academia have found to be a Medusa when it comes to university admins. No matter how many times one tries to reform them, their heads keep growing back and stinging everyone.
No one is crying for Harvard, nor for Federal workers who lost their jobs because of Trump cutting the Federal largesse. The only people criticizing Trump about cutting Federal jobs are the same people who harrangued us and mocked us about private business owners, private employees and Americans losing their jobs during COVID lockdowns. The DNC/MSM practically gloated about Americans losing their jobs, their financial savings and businesses so that they would become dependent on the Federal Govt. Americans rejected them just the same.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report in April 2024 noting that fraud was a very real problem in the Federal Government, to the tune of up to $521 billion.
2018-2022 Data Show Federal Government Loses an Estimated $233 Billion to $521 Billion Annually to Fraud, Based on Various Risk Environments
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-105833
Published: Apr 16, 2024.
Ignore the “elites” who mocked Americans in 2020 and following years when Americans lost their incomes, their financial savings, their employment and their privately owned businesses. Don’t shed a tear for them. LIkewise let Harvard and the Ivy League schools lay down in their graves as Americans rightly dance a gig on them. A great university is not defined by its buildings nor its campus but by its faculty. There are plenty of great universities with gifted and passionate faculty, if only Big Government got out of their way.
Democrats have seen their losses and are now pivoting back to center so as to win votes, votes that Trump won. Now Democrats view young men as sacred voters. Too little, too late.
Never forget what Democrats did to Americans
Six Months Later, Democrats Are Still Searching for the Path Forward
The prospectus for one new $20 million effort, obtained by The Times, aims to reverse the erosion of Democratic support among young men, especially online. It is code-named SAM — short for “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan” — and promises investment to “study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces.” It recommends buying advertisements in video games, among other things. “Above all, we must shift from a moralizing tone,” it urges.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/democratic-party-voters.html
Mulvaney = a boy pretending to be a girl. No amount of haranguing from the Trans Mafia can change that reality. Dylan Mulvaney is male. He is a gay man in need of attention. He tried the regular gay male thing and it was insufficient. Only when he pretended to be a girl did it pay off for him.
Dylvan Mulvaney is Svelaz aka George, Dennis, Gigi, TDS anonymous troll
All the pseudo-intellectual boobs commenting above (predictably) miss the biggest point.
Trump is forcing wealthy parents across the nation to question if Harvard is in the best interest of their intelligent child’s adult life.
Once that starts to slide (and it will), Harvard will never get all the way back. Ever. Ask American Asian families…
Harvard and their elite backers will pay a “long game” price, and never really comprehend why.
All the rest is just idiot wind.
Unfortunately you are a victim of the false consensus effect.
This occurs in dimwitted people who falsely believe that their beliefs, opinions and views are representative of the majority of other people.
You believe the nonsense you are peddling about Harvard, therefore you believe that the majority of other people share the same view.
You are absolutely wrong.
The only parents who will “question if Harvard is in the best interest of their children” are the dimwits like you.
And you represent a tiny minority of the population.
Harvard will always be a premier educational institute that will continue to receive more than 50,000 applications a year.
Anonymous – you display the very traits that cause regular people to hate Harvard – primarily, acting like a pompous ass.
I am a graduate of Harvard College and 15 years ago when my eldest was about to graduate high school I would have been all in for him to go to Harvard. Now, with my two youngest getting ready to graduate high school, there’s no way in the world I would support them applying to Harvard, much less going there.
Harvard will always be a premier educational institute that will continue to receive more than 50,000 applications a year.
That’s a bit misleading. Harvard does get more applications that anywhere else, but the reason is simple: people who have no real chance of getting into a highly selective university but want to apply to one just in case, virtually always apply to Harvard. The reasoning is: hey, I’m virtually certain to be rejected, but if I’m going to win the lotter and get accepted to an elite institution, it might as well be Harvard.
OMFK
“Anonymous – you display the very traits that cause regular people to hate Harvard”
Thank you for proving my point !!!!
Absolutely perfect, textbook example of the false consensus effect.
You hate Harvard.
Therefore you believe all “regular people” hate Harvard, because you are a “regular person” who represents the majority.
Trust me, you are not a “regular person”.
Trust me, your views do not represent the views of the majority.
Trust me . . .
I don’t trust you. You’re an anonymous troll. You’re a joke, and not in the good sense. You’re a pompous ass. Who do I trust? I trust me and the people I talk with on a daily basis.
You hate Harvard.
No, I love Harvard. It’s my alma mater. I do hate what bad people in charge of Harvard have done to it. If I didn’t love Harvard, I wouldn’t feel any distress over the way bad people have mismanaged the institution.
P.S. People hating Harvard didn’t start with people. It started with Harvard. It started with Harvard hating America, and there’s even a book by that title, so contrary to your assertion, it’s not just me.
https://www.amazon.com/Harvard-Hates-America-Born-Again-American/dp/0895266881
“I trust me and the people I talk with on a daily basis”
Another wonderful textbook example of the false consensus effect !!!!!
I, and the people I talk to every day, represent the majority views of the population at large.
You are the gift that keeps on giving and you are too stupid to realize it
Boy you’re even stupider than I realized. You don’t trust you and the people you associate with? Then you’re a complete chump. Maybe someday you’ll actually make a friend but I’m not holding my breath. Must suck to be you.
Au contraire, mon ami.
I trust myself.
I also trust the people I associate with.
However, unlike you, I am not delusional, and do not think that I or my associates represent the views of the majority of the population at large.
You apparently believe that your views align with the majority of the population.
You are delusional, as are the rest of your MAGA cult cohort, whose views represent a minority in the greater population.
False consensus effect.
You realize you’re literally referring to Jonathan Turley, the owners of this website, in this response, yes?
Absolutely, without any shadow of doubt, I am also referring to Turley.
He has a long history of playing fast and loose with the facts, and falsely believing he represents the views of the majority.
Wealthy parents like Jon Turley?
Nothing will ever get all the way back, Debbie Downer.
Professor Turley,
You have written many columns (like the one below), attempting to dispel the notion that a Trump presidency would bring an authoritarian regime to power in the US.
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/10/24/selling-the-apocalypse-the-press-and-pundits-face-devastating-polls-on-the-threat-to-democracy/
Yet, you acknowledge here that Trump’s administration has violated the law by attempting to revoke the school’s tax-exempt status, freeze its federal funding, and block its ability to serve international students. Further, you acknowledge the Trump administration has taken these actions by violating the school’s due process and procedural protections (under the APA, for example).
Most importantly, you acknowledge that, despite the fact that Harvard is correct regarding its legal claims, Trump may win by ignoring the very institutions in place, which you previously said would protect us from lawless totalitarianism.
Do you not see how articles like this completely undermine your previous arguments regarding Trump’s threat to democracy and the rule of law? If he can pick fights and “win” even when he violates the law, then we have no rule of law in this country.
This is precisely the warnings you scoffed at last year.
I should additionally note that this line of yours from the above article has not aged well (since October 2024):
“The predictions of mass roundups, disappearances, and tyranny ignore a constitutional system that has survived for over two centuries as the oldest and most stable democracy in the world. “
Probably written by a disgruntled Harvard professor.
Not a professor. But was once a student and member of the Young Republicans at Harvard
OT, but presumably close to Professor Turley’s heart: Does requiring lawyers to be members of state bar associations violates the First Amendment?* There’s a case on which Scotus could grant cert raising that issue:
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/26/forcing-lawyers-to-join-leftist-bar-associations-violates-basic-first-amendment-freedoms/
*I emphasized “associations” to distinguish from state “bars” which is the license to practice law. Associations are usually just organizations of lawyers, which always lean left, sometimes hard-left. Conservative or right-leaning lawyers may not want to be associated and/or pay dues to such organizations. Is it constitutionally valid for a state government (in the form of the state supreme court) to require lawyers to join and pay dues to such an organization as a condition of licensure?
If Scotus does not provide First Amendment relief – e.g., by denying cert – then the issue can still be raised under each individual state’s constitution. Such state charters often provide broader protections than the federal Constitution.
Old
This could be interesting… I wonder what the SS court will do?
You can be sure the three libs will vote for the union.
Harvard, like every great university, does not need foreign students to balancve the budget or whatever. Equally good domestic students can be enrolled.
True, but there’s money at stake. Foreign students usually pay full freight, whereas American students usually need, and get, financial aid from the university.
Actually, Harvard does not distinguish between domestic and foreign students for financial aid.
All students, including foreign students, are eligible for Harvard’s needs based financial aid.
Harvard assesses the financial status of the student’s family and awards financial aid accordingly.
55% of students receive financial aid, and the average cost of tuition for them is $15,700.
Full tuition with housing at Harvard is $86,926.
Foreign students are not eligible for federal financial aid or loans, but they are fully eligible for Harvard’s scholarships and needs based aid.
Your comment is just one of the vast number of ill informed and absurd comments to be found on this site.
Your comment is just one of the vast number of ill informed and absurd comments to be found on this site.
And yet nothing you said contradicts it. I didn’t say foreign students were not eligible on the same basis as American students, only that they usually pay full freight You did not contradict that. Perhaps the reason they pay full freight is that they are from wealthier families.
You seem to have some specialized knowledge in this area, with your ability to provide the numbers. I believe you probably work at Harvard, possibly in the admissions office. If you want to call my comment absurd and ill-informed, at least kindly put out the additional data to prove it, namely, what percentage of foreign students get financial aid, how much do they get, and how does that compare to American students?
Perhaps when you do so, I’ll admit I was wrong. But until then you haven’t demonstrated any error on my part.
Americans university students apply for Federal financial aid which is not available to non-US citzens or permenent residents. Most American students do not need financial aid because their families have the dinero. See statistic below *
University of Virginia (UVA) Law School spells it clearly
Expenses and Financial Aid
For international students who are foreign nationals, the University of Virginia does not have funds available for scholarships or loans. Unless you attend a United World College school, (see below), we do not recommend that you proceed with an application if you are unable to finance your education at our institution.
https://www.law.virginia.edu/financialaid/financial-aid-information-international-students
* At UVA,
For full-time, first-time beginning students (freshmen), 35.50% of students received grants or scholarships and 27% of students received student loans
https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/trends/university-of-virginia-main-campus/financial-aid/
Residents of Virginia can attend UVA, a state university, at half the tuition and fees whereas non-Virgnia residents pay twice the tuition and fees.
TL;DR: The majority of foreign students are wealthy and/or have financial means to attend American universities
oldman
Foreign students do not USUALLY pay full freight.
The MAJORITY of foreign students get financial aid.
Harvard makes no distinction between domestic and foreign students.
55% of students receive financial aid, which reduces their costs to an average of $15,700.
Harvard does not make data available that distinguishes between foreign and domestic students.
They make absolutely no distinction between foreign and domestic students.
Since 55% of ALL students receive financial aid, and no distinction is made between foreign and domestic students, we can conclude that 55% of foreign students get financial aid.
I repeat, you have a habit of making ill-informed, fact free, absurd assertions that only serve the purpose of attempting to justify your ridiculous MAGA beliefs.
I will accept your facts, but your conclusions are error.
Since 55% of ALL students receive financial aid, and no distinction is made between foreign and domestic students, we can conclude that 55% of foreign students get financial aid.
The conclusion is not supported by the premise unless we assume that all foreign students who apply to Harvard have the exact financial means as all domestic students who apply. I have had some experience in this and I can tell you that the foreign families who apply to US schools generally have much more money and, as a consequence, pay full freight.
P.S. If you wish to continue the discussion, stick to facts and logic. The insults (“ill-informed, fact free, absurd”) do not add any weight to your arguments. To the contrary, they detract from them.
#wth, educating foreigners and getting a free ride on taxes and public grants? FTS
Κansas Elder — The $ don’t matter to admissions At my alma mater, CalTech, and surely not to Harvard with its $50 million. What does for CalTech, and surely therefore also Harvard, is something which makes the admittee outstanding, not just grades and SAT scores.
David – I’m not saying it matters to admissions, but to the administration. The administration is in the business of raising revenue. They like having a lot of international students because they know most of them pay full freight. The idea of taking away the international cohort does not sit well with the administration because it’s a huge money-loser. The employee from Harvard’s financial aid office told me I was absurd for saying this, but to this very minute he or she has not contradicted anything I said.
Do you really think I am an employee in the Harvard financial aid office ???
You are even more demented than I thought.
Kansas Elder — Nope. The administration carries out the will of the faculty. Neither CalTech nor Harvard need revenue.
The administration takes its marching orders from the faculty? That’s a joke, right? And the faculty wouldn’t care about funds coming into the university even if it did call the shots? Another joke, right? And Harvard doesn’t care about receiving new funds? Yet another joke, right?
Oldman
David is absolutely correct and you are wrong.
David is a computer science graduate of Caltech, and has had a long and distinguished career as a faculty member at University of North Carolina and Washington State University.
He knows from first hand experience how top tier universities function.
The administration is there to do the bidding of the faculty.
At most top tier institutions the President is also an active faculty member.
At Caltech the President is Thomas Rosenbaum, who is a professor of physics with a large postgraduate student research group, and he teaches undergraduate students.
At Harvard the President is Alan Garber, who is a professor of Health Care Policy and Management at Harvard Medical School. He conducts research and teaches at the graduate and undergraduate level.
I could go on, but it would be pointless.
On the other hand you know absolutely nothing of the inner workings of major universities.
All you know is your own prejudices and false beliefs that you get from the MAGA cult.
The only places where the administration is in control, and where revenue is the top priority, are diploma mills like Trump University.
Dear Anonymous Troll:
I’m happy to see I’ve apparently gotten your goat. But you’re factually wrong in everything you have asserted above about me. I grew up in a home where my parents were university academics, and I am very familiar with the way universities work. Furthermore, any argument suggesting that institutions do not care about whether they obtain funding is a joke. That you believe in such a thing only reflects your very low intelligence.
David’s assertion was that universities don’t care about getting money. First, that is facially absurd. Second, I’ve personally known multiple university presidents (as well as private secondary school presidents) in my life, and I know that they care a great deal about obtaining funds. It is one of the main things that drive them.
. . . false beliefs that you get from the MAGA cult.
The assumption that anyone who voted for Trump is a member of a cult is typical among you left-wing low-IQ dweeb types who know nothing about the world or people. And the idea that making America great again is a cultish belief only reflects your hatred for America.
So your parents were university academics.
So you know some university presidents.
And this gives you insight into the inner workings of top tier universities.
Well, my neighbor, who I have known for 30 years, is a cardiothoracic surgeon.
This gives me great insight into how to perform cardiac bypass surgery.
I would be happy to perform surgery on you if you are ever in the need of bypass surgery.
Kansas Elder — As CalTech and Harvard both have lots of $, it is not an issue and indeed I asm not joking about the faculty being predominant. At lesser ranked universities the administration pays more attention to funding and the faculty is less predominant but even at Washington State University the now-former president did not serve a fulln term after a vote of censure by the faculty.
Kansas Elder — Yes, at the top universities the administration does the will of the faculty. As for funding, CalTech and Harvard have ample endowment. Not so at Washington State University, a Morrill Act land grant institution. But even there the just recently ‘retired’ president did not survive a vote of censure by the faculty.
“The $ don’t matter to admissions”
That is grossly incorrect.
Colleges typically spend about 6% of their endowment on yearly operating expenses. Harvard’s operating expenses, for example, were most recently about $6.4 billion. (That does not include expenses for capital improvements.) With an endowment of some $50 billion, that leaves Harvard short about $3.4 billion/year.
Colleges desperately need outside income, which is why they push for federal student loans and pressure faculty to get outside grants.
If Harvard is continuing to violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act in the name of DEI by discriminating against Jews, Asian Americans, and white men, it should absolutely be stripped of federal funding and the right to enroll international students.
What are they going to do? Call the President names and launch a smear campaign against him? Oops! That hand has already been overplayed.
Gosh…what could they do? Mmm. I know, they can shut down violence, vandalism and enforce laws that pertain to a safe and orderly environment for students of all races and political views, especially those students and faculty who are Jewish, given the irrational vitriol against the nation of Israel and its citizens. Such vitriol is being stirred by zealous activists.
(What serious student has the time to hang out for lengthy, prescribed and organized riots?)
But no, that would be viewed as acquiescence to the current administration. So those who exist in the rare, unsullied air of elite academia will die on this hill of insanity.
Kennedy responded that Harvard “is an elite university” and does not have to “look like America.”
This quote tells me why Harvard will find itself alone in the wilderness.
As it so deserves
The hostages are hanging up progress in Gaza. It’ll have to be bulldozed and rebuilt so get on with it. Thanks hamass
Prediction: In three and a half years, Harvard will still be operating. Trump will not be.
You are too generous with your estimate concerning Trump.
Trump only has a little over a year of unfettered “operation”.
Harvard has been around for 389 years.
They will still be “operating” when Trump and the MAGA mob are just a distant and painful memory.
Too true. Kind of makes Turley’s “battle” and “war” analogy sound a little silly, doesn’t it?
Responding to yourself doesn’t make your quarter-assed argument look any better; just paints you as schizo.
-Rabble
This idiot does this crap every day (responding to himself).
Really low IQ. Think double digits.
They could also be short of US cash
Enjoy less than mediocrity. Harvard tanked…
Harvard fatigue
Nope, more Republicans will be in congress not fewer and there’ll be republican presidents for a very long time.
Most of all when you look at the loons running the DNC…. like say Hogg.
Plus supporting terrorist and gang members… Yeah, run with that and see what Americans will think.
Silly, childish. There is no issue of whether Harvard will continue to operate. Duh, of course it will still be operating. The issue has to do with whether, and under what condition, Harvard is entitled to billions in taxpayer dollars and tax exempt status.
Don’t count your eggs yet. Prez Trump just may run again….
Try not to scream
LOL
I believe this quote from Reagan applies to how our government should deal with institutions like Harvard: If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.
How much are we in debt now, $37 trillion? There may have been a time in this country’s history where we needed the government to spend public funds to build critical infrastructure, but is that even necessary any longer? I’m more inclined to believe private capital investment is more than able to fill that need with the proper incentives. What DOGE has revealed is our government uses our taxpayer money like a massive slush fund to stay in power. It’s well past time to take the training wheels off and let this country and the rest of the world do what they do best without our aid.
Can you provide the source of your claim that DOGE has uncovered massive fraud, please? I’d love to read more about that. Thank you!
Can you provide the source of your claim that DOGE has uncovered massive fraud, please?
If you love reading, try rereading my comment. I never claimed massive fraud. Do your own research.
WOW – I just legitimately wanted to read about the good work that DOGE has done. I love Elon and what he’s done. Not sure why you’re attacking me? So are you saying that DOGE hasn’t uncovered fraud?
😂
Ano
Can you “dis-prove” it…. See it works both ways.
Yet, it must be true the way the DNC is freaking out.
Fund trades in an effort to rebuild the dumpster fire..
*^^^ Which is needed more, a capenter or a person with a degree in gender studies.
* After Harvard has studied the issue enough it can report out to the nation on which bathroom we should use. That’ll take many years and millions of dollars.
Meanwhile repubs will be building …carpenters and sech…
Letter to Harvard University (submitted to local newspaper)
The editorial “Science funding shouldn’t be a political football” (local Morgantown newspaper, 4/27) describes the pain to West Virginia from science funding freezes and cuts. Two points to consider are that many cuts feel arbitrary but upon further investigation can be seen to relate to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and that the pain is felt in all 50 states from these cuts. Harvard University has been particularly in the news due to the depth of its cuts ($3.2B) and the rationale (antisemitism, see “https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-brands-harvard-antisemitic-threat-democracy-amid-funding-battle)”
With a storied (almost) 400 year history, Harvard University doesn’t need much advice from me. But I can provide a few insights. One critique of Harvard is that money flows from red states to Harvard, rather than the other way around. This argument ignores the benefits Harvard researchers and students provide to all 50 states. However, using some of the modern computational technology one can figure out how much Harvard benefits each state, how much the benefits compare to other universities, and how Harvard can increase the benefit it provides to the states.
This is done is through geographical information systems (GIS). The easiest way to understand this is to imagine a Google or Apple map on your phone with Harvard benefits instead of hotels and restaurants.
They would know (with permission) where alumni live, approximately how much money they earn, their current job, etc. For academics, they would know the graduate’s publication records or publicly known intellectual property. This could be related to health or any number of other beneficial areas of research or work and could be fed into formulas to provide a score of how much each state benefits. By comparing with WVU, Pitt, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western, Stanford, Texas A&M and so on, Harvard could strategize on how to spread its benefits farther. If this is difficult, they could then partner with other universities even more than they do now. This is a part of shining a light on current benefits and illuminates a way to increase them. Along with other universities, health and technological benefits could be shared across all 50 states as equitably as possible.
President Trump had four years to strategize and enlist loyal supporters. I have said from the start that he is approaching his entire 47th Presidency as a general would an epic war. His loyal Cabinet Secretaries, qualified and focused, serve as his generals knowing the mission, ready to carry it out. . . every last one of them. No mistakes this time.
President Trump understands that the enemy, whether it be foreign interests, Deep State, compromised politicians, the corrupt media, or woke-ism, must be attacked at multiple angles with total, relentless bombardment. In every war, there are battles to be won and lost, but eyes must remain focused on the ultimate goal of taking back America for the benefit of the American people.
President Trump knows he must work within the law, even when he oversteps, leaving it ultimately to the highest court in the land to sort it all out. That’s his right as head of the Executive Branch — to push the limits. Past Presidents have done no less. Congress faces this same test when they overstep their boundaries.
Remember that President Trump went to military school. He has high regard for President Andrew Jackson and General George Patton because these men are his role models. Pay attention, people. We are witnessing history in progress.
Wow! 3 percent of Harvard faculty members identify as conservative! I would have thought it would be closer to 0.3%, or maybe even zero. Either that stat is out-of-date or Harvard is going to have to ramp up their purge if they are going to achieve the desired full liberal (leftist) orthodoxy.
I believe that 3% is the low intelligence DEI hires.
As a Harvard graduate (Class ‘1972) I have always been very critical of the ultra-progressive (leftist) culture prevailing there, and this has intensified in recent years. So I fully agree that Harvard’s culture requires some balancing. President Trump is not familiar with the technique of balancing. Her prefers the sledgehammer in such situations. This will not end well. Whatever the outcome, Harvard’s reputation and standing will be damaged for a very, very long time. Research will decline, scientists will move elsewhere. An American institution of world-wide renown will no longer enjoy world-wide renown. Quite an accomplishment for President Trump!
It’s also quite an accomplishment for Penny Pritzger and the entire Harvard Corporation board (not to mention Presidents Gay and Garber), who could have avoided all of this with better and more versatile management, rather than sanctimony and obtuseness. It’s time for a thoroughgoing change at the top of Harvard. The cancer of the Marxist ideology that has taken hold there throughout the faculty and administration must be removed root and branch. Bill Ackman is right.
Cut off foreign donations, tax them, zero visas. The commie island can chug along ..
first time anyone took on Harvard u. so what in anyone’s’ opinion is trump to do, pretty please them? And all while HU takes hundreds of millions of U.S. tax dollars to propagate hate?
* open a far right university pro usa, Christian, white and Jewish, and for the pepper a contingent of avowed racist groups to harass anyone when given orders.
That’ll do and pay top dollar + for the best stem professors on the planet with a huge, well endowed research and development dept.
Someone has to do the work, right?
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Blame Harvard not Prez Trump.
They did this to them selves.
The administrators of Harvard should direct the universities chemistry department to analyze the water to determine if it’s contaminated with illiberal bodies that infect the mind.
They’re just plain fing crazy in MA. I know I’m from MA and got out 5 years ago. I’m sane now. I think…
Jonathan, would it not be more effective if the Trump Administration handled antisemitism and terrorist activities on campus with regulations. Then enforce the regs at Harvard and generally. It seems unfair for Harvard to receive strong penalties when other schools have similar problems. I feel that this lack of more general application gives Harvard its most compelling underlying argument of unfairness.
ORRR (and go with me here for a moment, because I know this will be hard to believe) this has nothing to do with antisemitism.
Yeah, really, you mean just apply existing law? Who’d a thunk it.
HARVARD will win this War of Attrition with the Trump Administration!!!! Why? Because they have AI on their side!!!!!!!!
Headline from the Babylon Bee: “ChatGPT Announced As Harvard Valedictorian”
And that says it all……..
Perhaps Professor Turley drawing on his wealth of knowledge and experience in constitutional law could propose which flagrantly illegal overreaches and abuses of executive power Harvard should capitulate to in order to reach a settlement.
Kind of like Ukraine I guess. Might makes right.
Lets see.
Putting Jewish students in danger (violent protests) Not allowing Asians.
Two for a start.
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not necessarily addressed to dust off, what’s the skinny on scotus refusing to hear the apache burial ground and copper mine case? Isn’t that a 1A case? The apache are going to join their ancestors in the after life? Right? Seriously…
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