Harvard still wants its D.C. sugar daddy

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” This defiant and bipartisan defense of the purity of education, delivered by Harvard president Alan Garber, sounds fantastic, right? After all, what society that pretends to value objectivity would dare to allow a government to control the educational decisions of private institutions? Barack Obama — blessed is he — agreed, celebrating Harvard as a shining beacon of academic freedom! “Harvard has set an example for other...

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