Harvard University has He rejected several demands Or a presidential commission on anti -Semitism.
The working group wants to persuade Harvard so that Jewish students on their campus are no longer harassed, or otherwise they lose their federal funds.
Harvard replies that he won to be intimidated by Washington.
Among its other requirements, the Trump administration also warned Harvard to stop using the breed as a criterion in its admissions, hiring and promotion, contrary to the law.
And also directed the campus to Prohibit the use of masks That, in the era after the protests, they have packaged violent protesters with anonymity.
The order of the administration of stopping bias based on the breed was in accordance with the Civil Rights Statutes, and a recent decision of the Supreme Court that specifically prohibits the affirmative action in Harvard and in other places.
It doesn’t matter. Harvard said the Trump administration violated its rights of the first amendment.
Then, he has temporarily rejected the orders of the administration.
At least for now, Harvard has lost its annual subsidy of $ 2.2 billion of federal funds.
Former president Barack Obama, among others, Praised Harvard’s rejection Or the demands of the administration’s anti -Semitism task force. He said that the efforts of the Trump administration were with his hands in ham.
But what academic freedom are talking about Harvard and Obama?
The freedom to discriminate and segregate by race in hiring, admissions, bedrooms and graduations?
The freedom of 500 Harvard students to block the classes of others, close traffic and harass students based on their religion or views on Israel?
Despite all Harvard topics, their classrooms are still being interrupted. Jewish students are still fearful.
And what would Obama say if, for example, Harvard’s African -American students were harassed on the campus by masked disruptors?
Or were the black studies classes blocked by students who used scarves on their faces while ventilating their hatred?
Would Trump administration to force Harvard to honor federal civil rights protections?
Remember, Harvard is a private university with a large extent not exa or at $ 50.2 billion.
Once again, he still receives about $ 2.2 billion, now suspended, in federal funds.
The administration’s task force is not forcing Harvard to execute his conformity of the university to his federal version or dictates.
On the other hand, Trump’s commission simply warns Harvard that if, in addition to his huge sources of private financing, he still wants to continue with about $ 2.2 billion in public money from the federal government, then he must comply with the Executive.
Harvard remembers the testimony in the Ver in boats of its former president, Claudine Gay?
Sheet Did not assure a Congress Committee That Harvard had an action of tasks against openly hostile anti -Semitic student protesters during their growing protest movements.
Does Harvard understand why the Supreme Court ruled that he had violated the “clause of equal protection” of the fourteenth amendment and was guilty of Prejudice against Asian Americans?
Does Harvard have any clue why he has lost about $ 150 million per year or donor?
Does Harvard realize that no one believes in his claims that “he cannot and will not tolerate the interruption” of the classes, since he still occurs all the time in his varuous professional schools and undergraduate courses?
Maybe Harvard should follow the strategy of Independent Hillsdale Collegethat a long time ago I wanted to be free of federal dictates.
Then, unlike Harvard, the university put its prosverbial money where its mouth was and unilaterally renounced all federal funds to be free from Washington’s octopus tentacles.
However, there is a critical distinction between Hillsdale and Harvard.
Hillsdale does not take federal money, point, expelled by a democratic or republican administration.
He sincerely believes that the Federal Government also does not follow the Constitution, which prevents freedom and forces to violate equality under the law by discriminating against race and gender.
Harvard has no such principles.
Its beef is not with the notion of an overflowing federal government, eager to force private universities to follow partular protocols.
On the other hand, it is at war, only with the Trump commission or, in theory, any other similar conservative administration that can adhere to the law as a condition of bees funded by the federal government.
Otherwise, Harvard has no problem with a federal activist government, provided it is liberal that forces all kinds of initiatives of the title IX or DEI in private and Christian universities that epipperly lost their autonomy by accepting federal money.
He has not said anything when state and federal governments in the past quoted Hillsdale for free.
Harvard aloud can free Itelf by permanently pursuing his agenda in his own endowment of $ 50 billion, in the same way that Hillsdale does so in silence with 10 billion, without the Taxpayer’s penny, either Democrat.
Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished member of the Center for American Granura.
