Trump’s Assault on Harvard Is an Astonishing Act of National Self-Sabotage

An Astonishing Act of National Self-Sabotage

Yascha Mounk: “Even among this litany of increasingly radical attacks on higher education, the Trump administration’s latest broadside against Harvard stands out for the extent of its cruelty…” “Trump’s action would deeply disrupt the lives and the careers of thousands of talented young people, the vast majority of whom have done absolutely nothing to provoke the administration’s ire against their institution. It would have a highly negative imp…

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Trump’s Assault on Harvard Is an Astonishing Act of National Self-Sabotage

Memorial Hall, Harvard, 1900. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group.)The best way to understand Donald Trump’s administration, Ivan Krastev told me a month ago, is as a “revolutionary government in the form of an imperial court.” And the most important thing about revolutionary governments is that they quickly develop an unstoppable dynamic of their own, one in which the logic of events pushes its originators to ever more radical act…

Trump’s war on Harvard is un-American

The trigger-happy firing range that is the present administration has put America’s universities squarely in the crosshairs.