I could have never conceived that the U.S. President would be far more aggressive against a great university than he would be against a Russian dictator engaged in invading a U.S. ally. Why is it smart to starve cancer research, students on financial aid, innovation in public education and brilliant young people whose dream was to come to America while holding out the prospect of business deals to Vladimir Putin? I cannot imagine.
There is plenty that happens at Harvard where you have to marvel at the folly of intellectuals. For example, the Divinity School Dean treats the Holocaust and the Nakba in parallel in her major address and then stands by a commencement marshal convicted of harassing an Israeli student is unconscionable. There are issues the government is right to look at. Academic freedom does not mean universities are unconstrained by the Civil Rights Act, the Constitution and much more.
But totalizing efforts at destruction are never legal in America and doing vast damage beyond their object is a reason the Founding Fathers separated powers. The judiciary has to stop the overreach and support the reasonable enforcement of law with regard to Harvard and many other places.
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