Harvard, you’ve got a problem — but Donald Trump’s war will backfire
Antisemitism and political intolerance on campus needed to be confronted. But assaulting academia rarely works — ask James II — and the president’s approach risks making martyrs of the worst offenders
When a head of state picks a fight with a university, you generally expect the university to lose. Even the richest university — say, Harvard — does not have pockets as deep as the government. And as for armed force, to paraphrase Stalin, “How many divisions does the president of Harvard have?”
And yet the pen is sometimes mightier than the sword, the go…
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