“Harvard is fighting back.”
There was a time when more colleges had ROTC units, producing soldiers, sailors, and pilots every year, patriotically rallying to the cause in wartime, fighting for their country.
It’s been a long time since that was the norm.
Since the 1960s and 1970s, our nation’s colleges have been identified with pacifism. The idea that an American college would do any fighting at all sounds more like Ancient History than Current Events.
But now the professors of Harvard Yard are fighting mad. They’re holding press conferences and firing off op-eds, trying to rally other colleges to their cause.
And what is their “cause”? Unlimited government funding, free from the limitations of a desperately needed federal austerity program.
The college is willing to fight — against our own virtually bankrupt federal government — to keep the cornucopia of federal taxpayer-funded checks flowing, when President Donald Trump is trying to shut off the spigot.
Since the Executive Branch issues a lot of checks to Harvard — and to most colleges, in fact, to darned near all of them — the Trump administration has put its foot down. They have…
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