This move makes the war on Harvard look like a brief skirmish. In fact, Donald Trump’s executive order may moot it altogether by simply bypassing the administration at Harvard and other Academia institutions. Trump has unveiled what he calls his “secret weapon” for transforming higher eduction — an executive order that will transform the federal...
Secret weapon? Thus far, the Trump administration has deployed plenty of public weapons in the fight to end anti-Semitism and illegal discrimination in Academia, and especially in the Poison Ivies. The most obvious weapon has been money, and that was enough to get Columbia’s attention, if not its full cooperation. For Harvard, Donald Trump and...
