Harvard has “been a pox on our educational system at least since the 1920s”
“They truly believe that they know better and they’re immune to accountability, and now they’re finding out otherwise.”
The war between the Trump administration and Harvard has been escalating.
Here is my ‘hot take’ excerpted from our most recent full Legal Insurrection podcast.
(For unknown reasons the audio was low and we couldn’t increase internal volume as much as we would have liked, so turn your volume up)
Transcript (auto-generated, may contain transcription errors, lightly edited for transcript clarity)
Something we’ve talked about before, is Harvard has decided to fight because it’s getting cheers within its bubble.
But what are they fighting for?
They’re fighting for the right to continue to discriminate. They’re fighting for the right to allow hoodlums to run to rampage on the campus harassing Jewish students. This is what they’re fighting for. They’re not fighting for anything that’s worth fighting for.
They’ve dug this grave for themselves.
Think about it.
You say Harvard has been doing this for a long time. I don’t think people realize how long they’ve been doing this.
In the 1920s, they invented the quota system for admissions to keep Jews out with the whole person view, I forget what they call it. That whole thing of moving away from objective measures like test scores and considering other things was developed by Harvard in the 1920s to keep the number of Jews lower, to reduce the number of Jews.
They have been a pox on our educational system at least since the 1920s.
They then took that model that they used against Jews, and used it against Asians and Whites in the affirmative action field. The Harvard model in admissions is exactly what the Supreme Court said was illegal and unlawful, and they’ve been doing it since the 1920s.
That’s the Harvard attitude.
They think they’re above everybody else. And I went there, so I know it, that that’s the attitude.
They truly believe that they know better and they’re immune to accountability, and now they’re finding out otherwise.
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The greater pox is all the graduates that have gone on to run for office, hold judgeships. and run companies while infected with the harvard discrimination virus.
And, not just Harvard, but the all the other members of the wretched, corrupt and morally debased “Ivy League;” Yale, Princeton, Brown and Cornell — with Dartmouth standing out as having been corrupted only to a slightly lesser and less prominent degree.
What makes you prefer Dartmouth, which stole a campus designated for an indian school and “repurposed” it for itself? It’s as good a story as Elihu Yale promising a naming gift to (I think it was called something like) Connecticut College in the early 1700’s, the place was renamed Yale College, the money never appeared but the name stuck.
Indeed. But the worm has turned in a number of places. If you have a degree from several of the ivies, you don’t get hired. Some federal judges have made the explicit: go to Yale or Harvard and don’t bother applying for clerkships.
The discrimination, the affirmative action and the overt, liberal bias is great big fat pus-filled pox on the institution.
Additionally, they have taken on a new shade of hate resembling the George Floyd protests. One with muslim garb, one without. One where you can see the faces, one where they’re hidden for obvious reasons.
Now they have a pox on both ends.
Harvard’s financial situation is very tenuous. Their much ballyhooed “endowment” is full of junk. If they have to liquidate any of it, they will take a serious haircut. That $50B is likely to be worth a lot less.
Their actual operating margins are lower than the typical grocery store. They CANNOT afford to lose any substantial Federal support, any substantial loss in foreign students who usually pay list price.
I think it likely they are googling “recipes for crow”. At least they damned well should be.
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/29/2025/universities-nightmare-scenario-not-just-federal-funding-cuts
I read that yesterday and was very surprised that they had moved into such illiquid assets. The book value is high but the sale value, if they are forced to dump to finance operating costs, will be far less. That other universities followed this model is surprising as any competent financial advisor would have warned them against tieing up all their money like that but, as the article says, they were rolling in federal cash, foreign students paying full price, royalties on inventions etc and thought the ride was going to last forever. I am very surprised the margins are so low. What are they spending the cash on except insane salaries, DEI programs and fake diplomas?
Harvard can easily cut operating costs just by firing administrators, which have taken over the institution in numbers.
Come on. Claudine Gay is irreplaceable at $1M/yr. Plagiarizing black women don’t come cheap.
A friend would say (adjusted for inflation) there is no job paying $1M/yr that cannot be done better by 10 people making $100K/yr.
The place is like a mafia. People like C. Gay are obviously running it for their own purposes. How else could a plagiarist continue on the faculty, let alone at such a high price?
How do you defeat a mafia? By very hard attacks.
I spent my life in small, private companies. Some Venture Capital financed, some not. There is always a problem with valuation of an illiquid investment. Mostly it comes down to the valuation is more or less what you say it is.
I find it fascinating that it appears that the have bank loans levered off the endowment assets. Holy Crow! Talk about a house of cards.
Trump got in trouble for his valuation of Mar-A-Lago. Not that anyone got harmed, other than Trump’s lawfare costs.
I wonder if Harvard will face the same jeopardy. Somehow, I think not.
Keeping Jews out was more trying to avoid becoming a Jewish institution. Their scores were too high. Nevertheless the quality of education was high until they started letting women in. Then the institution was run like Human Resources.
NYU in the 60s was called NY Jew just because that happened.
Shut your trap. My mother went to graduate school at Harvard, and she was one of the smartest people I ever knew. She was definitely smarter than you are.
Oh, and she was a Jewish woman accepted under the quota system.
sad but true
“the quality of education was high” as high as you could discern maybe. You don’t know what you don’t know.
@ rhhardin
NYJew was an institution of higher learning for those “Jew” kids who couldn’t afford to live away from home (as was City College [of NY] and Brooklyn and Queens colleges).
NYJew was also a top-notch school which allowed the more culturally-concerned Jewish parents to keep their kids at home away from the goyishe influences of the “better schools.”
You have a lot of top professionals in the NorthEast who graduated from NYJew – and NO. I graduated from one of the “better schools.”
NYU was also used for masters degrees for engineer employees of Bell Labs, attending a few days a week for full pay. Not that pay was that high. CDT program so called.
GE Aviation Evendale ran their own PhD program for their engineers. Although the program did not issue PhDs, the engineers looked at the program as being comparable. This was back in the Gerhardt Neumann era. Don’t know if they are still doing it. Probably not.
With respect to the general Harvard attitude as to why they need not follow the rules of the common people, there is the telling old saying: “You can always tell a Harvard man-(pause) But, you can’t tell him much”.
That is because he is educated beyond his intelligence.
“In every disaster throughout American history, there always seems to be a man from Harvard in the middle of it.” -Thomas Sowell
“unknown reasons the audio was low and we couldn’t increase internal volume “
This could be intentional by YouTube.
I belong to PlanetFitness and in the one I go to there are a series of TV screens to watch while you use the equipment. The channels include FOX, CNN news. There are headphone plug-in connections on a lot of the equipment so you can listen as well as watch. What is most interesting is that the sound level is at a listenable level on the CNN channel but the FOX channel it is barely audible.
pf is the place where they conflated the
no judgement zone into
men can enter womens locker rooms and we will kick out those who complain out that,,business
Such a new perspective on Harvard. They invested badly? They are operating on a small margin? They depend on foreign students to pay the bills? Harvard can’t handle money? Incredible.
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