{"id":203,"date":"2025-04-19T07:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/academentia-update-harvard-and-hillsdale\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T07:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:28:02","slug":"academentia-update-harvard-and-hillsdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/academentia-update-harvard-and-hillsdale\/","title":{"rendered":"Academentia Update: Harvard and Hillsdale"},"content":{"rendered":"

We of the Coalition of the Sane and Reasonable are rejoicing at Trump's treatment of Harvard. Once a great institution at the very top of the academic world, it has become a sick woke joke and a haven for antisemites and destructive DEI nonsense.  VERITAS (truth) remains emblazoned upon its seal, but truth, which has never been a leftist value, is now moribund if not dead in Cambridge, Mass., as witness the appointment of Claudine Gay, plagiarist<\/em>, as president. (She has since been removed.) Truth and Gay's 'my truth' are toto caelo<\/em> different. That she could be even proposed as president, let alone appointed, is indicative of deep institutional rot.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a private institution, Harvard can do pretty much what it wants, including digging its own grave; but it is plainly wrong for it to receive taxpayer dollars to subsidize destructive leftist lunacy.  If you can't see that, you are morally obtuse.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the view from Hillsdale, see here<\/a>.  Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mr. Trump\u2019s war on Harvard is largely about federal money, and Mr. Arnn\u2019s Hillsdale \u201cdoesn\u2019t take a single cent of it,\u201d he says. \u201cNobody gives us any money unless they want to.\u201d This means Hillsdale, founded by Free Will Baptists in 1844, isn\u2019t bound by government mandates tied to funding, such as Title IX. Harvard, he says, was \u201cexclusively funded by the private sector for\u2014what is it?\u2014it\u2019s got to be 250 years.\u201d (Harvard was founded in 1636.) \u201cAnd now, in this progressive era, if my calculations are right, they get $90,000 per student a year from the federal government.\u201d He recommends that Harvard, which receives about $9 billion a year from Washington, emulate Hillsdale and get off the government dole.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey should give it all up,\u201d Mr. Arnn says. \u201cThey should make an honest living.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Related<\/em>: <\/span><\/p>\n

Peter W. Wood, Harvard Against America<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Peter Berkowitz, Harvard Law Professors Politicize the Rule of Law<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Interesting development<\/a>: "Conservative New York Times<\/em> columnist David Brooks<\/strong> has called for a mass uprising to oppose President Donald Trump<\/strong>, going so far as to quote The Communist Manifesto<\/em>." <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We of the Coalition of the Sane and Reasonable are rejoicing at Trump's treatment of Harvard. Once a great institution at the very top of the academic world, it has become a sick woke joke and a haven for antisemites and destructive DEI nonsense.  VERITAS (truth) remains emblazoned upon its seal, but truth, which has … Continue reading “Academentia Update: Harvard and Hillsdale”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,163,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}