The stack of linked articles at the end is telling 😂

This piece makes me so angry. The unspoken part of it is “Harvard students don’t go to class, which leads to an ideological bubble, which justifies the Trump administration cutting off research funding to Harvard labs.”

I heard Christina Paxson (Brown president) affirm her commitment to academic freedom right after making that deal with Trump. This to me seems in the same vein

Is it possible that Harvard is trying to get him to donate money for this “trade school”—Trump mentioned AI and engines, not plumbing. Schwarzman funded the MIT school of computing.

The Trump administration doesn’t want anyone studying history or any of the other humanities so they can have a college educated populace blissfully unaware of historical parallels. Note that one of the demands is free tuition for “hard science” majors.

Thank you for the confirmation. This is disappointing but unsurprising. I think a lot of people assume the funding is back so this should be spread widely to expose the contempt of court.

Great reporting! Is there a standalone story coming on the status of federal funding at Harvard? Absent a stay, my understanding is that last week’s order should mean that existing grants should start to flow again…but I don’t think they have.

I’d like to see a story about whether any funding has been returned yet. Since no stay has been granted (or AFAIK even requested), in theory, some funding should be restored—but I haven’t seen any evidence of it yet.

Any news yet on restoration of funding or lack thereof?

I think Maura Healey is already planning to do this in MA (probably Reif mentions this, can’t read due to paywall). There’s also been a strong pivot to corporate dollars which precedes the Trump 2.0 nonsense, but that comes with its own pitfalls

Why is no one threatening to do this to Columbia?

What do you think of the fact that the WSJ is also now reporting that a settlement is near?

I shudder to think of unrestricted endowment funds going to this, and not to maintaining and growing actual academic centers and disciplines. Most likely this would be a well paid sinecure for political hacks.

Not libertarian, but I appreciate the work the Cato institute is doing! E.g. the coverage on the immigration and criminal status of the Venezuelan deportees to CECOT (showing that at least 50 of them were in the US legally and had no criminal record), and some of the survey work on manufacturing

Even around the undergrad question, I checked the stats for the Harvard class of 2028: it’s 18% foreign! That’s practically at Trump’s target of 15%

I suspect that when they come for Harvard’s funding, Larry Summers’ constant recent harping about antisemitism will play a role (to your point).

Unfortunately there may be more synergy between these two wings than previously believed, according to the Wired article on Stephen Miller’s role: www.wired.com/story/katie-...