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Solveig Lucia Gold
City Journal
Excerpt: All eyes are on the Ivy League as the Trump administration takes on the universities that have most conspicuously accepted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars while flagrantly violating civil rights law. Though Columbia has capitulated in part to the administration’s demands, it remains to be seen what effect Trump’s demands will have on other Ivies’ policies. In fact, we may not know for years, since the handful that can afford to resist (Harvard, Princeton) will not go down without long, drawn-out legal fights.
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