Trump’s Attacks Threaten Much More Than Harvard

Greg Lukianoff May 30, 2025 1 min read

Greg Lukianoff
The Atlantic

Excerpt: On May 22, the Department of Homeland Security stripped Harvard University of its Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, instantly jeopardizing the visas of nearly 6,800 international students—27 percent of the student body.

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Commentary: The Missing Link in Higher Ed Reform

John D. Sailer May 28, 2025 1 min read

John D. Sailer
City Journal

Excerpt: The challenge of higher education reform can be boiled down to one issue: the talent pipeline. If we can reconfigure the academic talent pipeline and ensure that those who believe in the classical mission of the university both choose academia and prosper in it, then the reform movement will succeed. If not, no list of policies, from securing campus free speech to dismantling DEI offices, will restore public trust in our universities.

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This Isn't Just About Harvard

By Nick Perrino May 27, 2025 1 min read

By Nick Perrino

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

Maybe you're sick of hearing news about Harvard. We can't blame you.

But as free speech defenders, we go where the censorship is. The government picks the targets, not us. And — once again — the government is unconstitutionally targeting Harvard.

You don't have to like Harvard to oppose the government's recent demands of the university.

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Commentary: Harvard Derangement Syndrome

Steven Pinker May 23, 2025 1 min read

Steven Pinker
New York Times

Excerpt: I’m hardly an apologist for my employer when I say that the invective now being aimed at Harvard has become unhinged. According to its critics, Harvard is a “national disgrace,” a “woke madrasa,” a “Maoist indoctrination camp,” a “ship of fools,” a “bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment,” a “cesspool of extremist riots” and an “Islamist outpost” in which the “dominant view on campus” is “destroy the Jews, and you’ve destroyed the root of Western civilization.”

Harvard is an intricate system that developed over centuries and constantly has to grapple with competing and unexpected challenges. The appropriate treatment (as with other imperfect institutions) is to diagnose which parts need which remedies, not to cut its carotid and watch it bleed out.

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Harvard Wins Injunction to Protect International Students

Josh Moody  May 23, 2025 1 min read

Josh Moody 
Inside Higher Ed

Excerpt: Less than a day after having its ability to host international students revoked by the federal government, Harvard University successfully sued the Trump administration to block the move. A judge granted a temporary restraining order late Friday morning.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Thursday afternoon that the Trump administration had stripped Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification in a letter that vaguely accused Harvard of a “failure to adhere to the law.”

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Harvard Researcher: the University Is “Totally Corrupted”

Christopher F. Rufo, Ryan Thorpe May 20, 2025 1 min read

Christopher F. Rufo, Ryan Thorpe
City Journal

Excerpt: Omar Sultan Haque has spent 23 years at Harvard University. He is furious about what has happened within the school.

While the media have framed the recent fight between Harvard and President Donald Trump in partisan terms, Haque believes that the problem goes much deeper than political score-settling. As he rose through the ranks—from graduate student to postdoctoral fellow to medical researcher to faculty member at Harvard Medical School—Haque watched the university gradually abandon the pursuit of truth and replace it with left-wing racialism.

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