Getty Images Harvard is suing the Trump administration after it revoked the university’s ability to enrol international students, escalating a dispute between the White House and one of America’s most prestigious institutions. In the suit filed in Boston, the university called the administration’s actions a “blatant violation” of the law. It comes a day after...
Kelly Ng & Annabelle Liang BBC News Shreya Mishra Reddy Harvard is “the ultimate school that anybody in India wants to get into,” says Shreya Mishra Reddy When Shreya Mishra Reddy was admitted to Harvard University in 2023, her parents were “ecstatic”. It is “the ultimate school that anybody in India wants to get into,”...
Is Harvard irredeemable? Yes, unless they are forced by external forces to reform. https://t.co/v9smW1aX8x — Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) May 21, 2025 That’s not the assessment of a conservative curmudgeon or some extreme partisans exacting revenge on institutions filled with lefty lunatics. That is what several Harvard professors and researchers who have watched a...
Could the Trump administration’s battle with Harvard put its officers in danger of criminal prosecution? With the exception of a foreign researcher who smuggled materials into the country, that seems unlikely to most. The investigations of Harvard’s policies and practices have thus far involved grants and other federal subsidies, along with potential civil liability for...
Yesterday, Harvard send Sec. McMahon a letter which attempted to walk a fine line between finding common ground with the Trump administration and flipping them the bird. As Ed pointed out here, the administration’s response was to announce another round of funding cuts amounting to nearly half a billion dollars. The message is pretty clear:...
Harvard can’t claim they weren’t warned. Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a letter a week ago to Harvard president Alan Garber warning him to start complying with the administration’s interpretation of the Civil Rights Act and two Supreme Court decisions on discrimination. Harvard ignored the letter until yesterday, when Garber tried sweet-talking McMahon out of...
Reading the headlines I thought at first maybe Harvard had issued two new letters to the Trump Administration. The Washington Post story was headlined “Harvard rejects Trump administration’s claims as funding battle escalates.” Sounds pretty resistance-y to me. But the NY Times headline about what turns out to be the same letter is headlined very...
Harvard earned a lot of praise last month for standing up to the Trump administration. For example: Congratulations to Harvard for refusing to relinquish its constitutional rights to Trump’s authoritarianism. Other universities should follow their lead. And instead of doing pro bono work for Trump, cowardly law firms should be defending those who believe in...
Donald Trump is upping his threats to Harvard, and I am okay with that as long as he stays within the law in doing so. Trump’s first shot across the bow came when he froze some funding for Harvard, rightly accusing them of violating civil rights laws. The accusation itself is clearly true–as I wrote...
Both my parents graduated from Harvard, as did one of my siblings. At the time of his admission, my father was admitted despite his Jewish heritage because at the time, the prestigious university was as fond of admitting Jews as it is of admitting Asians today. Harvard was WASP heaven then, and it is woke...
It was all the way back in January of 2024 that Harvard President Alan M. Garber announced a presidential task force on antisemitism and Islamophobia. Yesterday, more than a year later, those two reports were finally released. This comes at a somewhat inconvenient time for Harvard which has taken the lead among US universities in...
Harvard University President Alan Garber has apologised following the release of internal reports into antisemitic and anti-Muslim prejudice at America’s oldest university. The reports included testimony from students who described feeling alienated and pressured to conceal their identity from their peers and educators. In response to the findings, Harvard pledged to review its academic offerings...
In the world of resistance politics, Harvard is leading the university charge against the demands of the Trump administration. Harvard refused to a list of ten demands the administration had sent the school and sued the administration last week. But reports about the breakdown in communications that proceeded this suggested that, behind the scenes, both...
One has to wonder just how long Harvard will stand on its principles in this fight — especially when the main principle appears to be the right to discriminate on the basis of race, sex, and religion. And given how the Harvard Law Review operates, that’s not an exaggeration. On Friday, the Washington Free Beacon...
Ashley Rindsberg, from whose stories I have riffed on before, has a great piece in Spectator Magazine about the COVID cover-up that adds a new twist. Anthony Fauci, through a Harvard University intermediary, helped funnel money from the Chinese property company Evergrande to Harvard in February 2020. And that contribution was, quite surprisingly, part of...