Tablet Magazine

Harvard University and its president Alan Garber are caught between an angry Donald Trump and a harder place—namely, the university’s own sense of itself as the nation’s leading research and teaching university. In the face of Trump’s cut-off of over $2 billion in Federal funding as a consequence of the university’s ostensible failure to obey U.S. Civil Rights law, Harvard has decided not to “surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” as Garber proclaimed on April 11. But Trump’s bullying is often hard to resist because he picks well-deserved, unpopular targets. Harvard’s embrace of the Academic Intifada, rife with Jew-hatred and educational malpractice through professorial propagandizing, combined with a decades-long drift from merit-based hiring, is at the root of the university’s problems, and of the low public standing of elite universities. As America’s leading college president, while working to preserve his institution’s autonomy, Garber should kickstart creative educational reform from within, by ending tenure....

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