I didn’t apply to Harvard. I wouldn’t have gotten in if I had. Even though I lettered in track and field and was captain of my high school cross country team, I was a B student in high school. I didn’t apply to Harvard for grad school either. The lab where I did my postdoc […]

On Harvard: “The White House (yes, technically the GSA guy and the two lawyers) sent that letter to Harvard, demanding de facto control of the university’s hiring, admissions and various elements of its curriculum. Harvard replied with a flat rejection ten days ago. The White House immediately responded by freezing $2.3 billion in grants to […]

You may have read that the Trump so-called “antisemitism taskforce” recently sent a letter to Harvard effectively demanding management control over the University. Unlike any other university, Harvard publicly refused to comply. Now, the taskforce says the letter was sent by mistake. Sorta. “The university announced its intentions Monday, setting off a tectonic battle between […]

The letter to Harvard that accompanied the Trump Administration funding freeze shows once again that whatever the right accuses others of is what they’re doing. In this case, the Administration demands affirmative action hires of MAGA political commissars under the guise of fighting antisemitism and promoting diversity. “Among other things, it requires the university to […]