Once upon a time, there was the Harvard Lampoon – a humor magazine written by the privileged humorists who eventually became National Lampoon. The Lampoons could boast many wonderful comedic minds, such as Conan O’Brian, P. J. O’Rourke and Douglas Kenney.
One of the most iconic National Lampoon issues featured this cover.
Harvard’s literally taking the National Lampoon approach to try and save their federal funding. https://t.co/f35Cs9YiSa pic.twitter.com/CvgAA4lmky
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) April 17, 2025
Since this is 2025 and Harvard itself has become the parody, it seems appropriate, nay, poetic, that they would repeat the joke. They say that history starts as tragedy and repeats as farce, but in this era, the opposite is true.
Nobody is operating at the level of the Harvard PR team right now pic.twitter.com/7JP36RPX3t
— Sam Biederman (@Biedersam) April 17, 2025
Apparently, Harvard researchers are saying that if funding is cut, they be forced to kill lab animals. If that doesn’t bring tears to your eyes like a Sarah MacLachlan ASPCA commercial, well you must hate animals and love Trump.
How about @Harvard uses some of that 53B to…
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