Trump’s top officials are in the pocket of Big Tech. It remains to be seen whether Democrats will be much better.
Harvard University
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Resistance Comes to Higher Education
Trump’s threat to revoke universities’ accreditation meets a political and legal dead end.
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Former Economist Larry Summers
The American Economic Association banned him for life. Given how wrong Summers has been in every major area of policy advice, why did his public disgrace require the Epstein files rather than a reckoning with his serial failures as an economist?
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Companies Are Trying to Hide Their Ties to Larry Summers
Some fintech and energy startups haven’t announced that Summers is leaving; they just took him off their websites.
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Columbia Caves; Is Harvard Next?
Today on TAP: Despite Columbia’s deal with Trump, there is no guarantee that he won’t make new demands tomorrow.
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University Unions Stand Up to Trump’s Research Cuts While Administrators Waver
While some universities have capitulated to Trump’s NIH cuts, there are faculty and graduate student union leaders on the frontlines pushing back.
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Harvard v. Trump
Attempts to restrict grants and foreign student enrollment will accelerate an existing decline of America’s flagship universities.
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Harvard Between Courage and Disgrace
Today on TAP: Its law school faculty shames the university’s general strategy of appeasement.