Many people misunderstand the logic of focusing on Harvard. I don’t think this is random or petty. It has important societal consequences: 1. Harvard had been a bastion of insiders educating and placing the next generation of insiders in the economy and government. But if you have, instead, become a center of woke ideology then this source of talent has been completely corrupted and can’t be trusted anymore to run companies or government. Inasmuch, the head of the snake must be chopped off. 2. Harvard is the textbook example of an asset management company masquerading as a non profit educational institution. This arbitrage is bad for the US and needs to change - otherwise the incentives and behaviors of administrators will never improve. Administrators should not be running the top schools in America. Great professors and brilliant students should. These places should be free-wheeling centers of battling ideas and curiosity. Not DEI based groupthink. 3. Harvard has consistently had so many back and side doors into their school while blatantly locking the front door to pure merit. This has been well documented and went to the Supreme Court who concurred. This is a horrible way for American society to model itself. 4. Harvard has a level of low-key antisemitism that has been called out by many including former alums. It seems to try and superficially address it to say “Nothing to see here” which has appeased no one. Fixing Harvard is about fixing a bunch of societal rot in America. I think President Trump has sniffed this out and won’t relent. I encourage Harvard to fold. They have a losing hand.
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