Harvard Prof Who Chaired ‘Institutional Neutrality Group’ Advocates ‘Resistance’ to Trump
“The main thing is to keep sending a clear message that what’s going on isn’t normal, isn’t okay, and won’t be tolerated.”
Professor Noah Feldman of Harvard was the co-chair of the school’s Institutional Voice Working Group, which recommended that “[t]he university and its leaders should not . . . issue official statements about public matters that do not directly affect the university’s core function.”
Feldman is also active on Substack, where he recently advocated ‘resistance’ to the Trump administration, particularly regarding ICE.
Ira Stoll reported at the Washington Free Beacon:
Chair of Harvard’s ‘Institutional Voice’ Committee Insists: ‘You Need To Participate in … Resistance’
The Harvard professor who co-chaired the university’s institutional neutrality working group, which concluded that the university should not “issue official statements about public matters that do not directly affect the university’s core function,” has started a new Substack in which he exhorts readers to “participate in … resistance” against the Trump administration.
“The takeaway is that you need to participate in sustained, sustainable resistance,” the column says. “If ICE hasn’t yet deployed where you live, that resistance can include speaking out online and to your friends and neighbors. It can include donating money to organizations that are supporting protestors. The main thing is not to be silent. The main thing is to keep sending a clear message that what’s going on isn’t normal, isn’t okay, and won’t be tolerated.”
The professor, Noah Feldman, is the first signer of the May 2024 Harvard “Report on Institutional Voice in the University,” which cautioned the university against speaking out on political issues.
“The integrity and credibility of the institution are compromised when the university speaks officially on matters outside its institutional area of expertise,” the report said. “If the university adopts an official position on an issue beyond its core function, it will be understood to side with one perspective or another on that issue. Given the diversity of viewpoints within the university, choosing a side, or appearing to do so can undermine the inclusivity of the university community.”
A quick look at Feldman’s Substack reveals all of the talking points currently favored by the left.
On the Value of Sustained Resistance in Preserving Democracy
Of all the Trump administration’s efforts to expand and consolidate its authority, the ICE operations in Minneapolis feel the most terrifying. In the U.S. system, we are accustomed to police being limited in their ability to grab people up on the streets and send them away to detention centers without hearing or trial. Seeing that happen gives us a sense of what a true police state looks like. Careful, thoughtful writers and analysts who have been wary of drawing analogies between Trumpism and fascism are starting to use the term less guardedly. That’s a direct result of the atmosphere created by ICE.
Is there any wonder why Pete Hegseth recently announced that the War Department is now severing academic ties with Harvard?
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…and Cardi b told her people that if she sees ICE agents she was going to do some violence on them
they wont stop
until they are told to
Another a-hole from Harvard…
The goose-stepping, brown-shirted, communist/Marxist/Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist/black supremacist/tranny “Resistance,” says, “Resistance is futile.”
This kind of nonsense is why some alumni are not sending money to Harvard.
I say let’s put a few murderers from El Salvador in his house , for”safe keeping” and hands on experience
This guy isn’t doing much to convince folks of his sincere commitment to neutrality or given his bad faith comment even basic integrity.
What’s not normal is a country that millions of people crossing the border without a declaration of war being followed.
is he the Zimri traitor who slandered his high school by lying that the removed him from an alumni photo?
Gets more than a little old when these chapped lips have nothing to say when President Auto pin was running the show now all the sudden they’ve got a problem because they no longer have their hand in the cookie jar
His salary is being furnished by student loans from the very government he wants to resist. You can’t hate these leftist tool bags enough.
I once dated a girl that got into Hahvahd. I helped her move into her dorm. The kids in there already have have an intense sense of entitlement, a more acute form of the left’s “we are the intelligensia of the world, and by extension, your betters” mentality.
That was in the 70’s. Nowadays, it is exponentially worse. The virus of Marxism, coupled with wokeism, Hamasholism, and an utter lack of critical thinking fuse into a hive mind of Marxism shaped mindsets. Not a one of them has had a real job, only the expectations of being coddled by gov’t grants and unearned positions at companies due to legacy favors.
These are the people that elect the Mamdanis of the world, and then can’t rationalize why nothing they propose works or is destined to fail.
You may have heard the expression that somebody is “so stupid they don’t know they are stupid.” Well, it can extend to the overeducated, who are so maleducated they don’t know they are maleducated.
They wear it like a badge of accomplishment but it is really egg on their faces.
How else would a formerly “esteemed” institution hire the likes of Elizabeth Warren? I can guarantee there are many others, and Feldman just rose to the top of that list.
Don’t send your kids to the ChiCom “party school,” and don’t hire anyone the “school” produces.
This was predictable as it comports with Robert Conquests 2nd rule of politics: “Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing.”
And to expand, all of these activists, politicos, academics, etc. demonizing ICE for enforcing legislation passed by congress and signed into law by a president (40 years ago), then enforced by every administration since (some better than others) are engaged in a dog whistle campaign of seditious conspiracy to foment treasonous rebellion against the US Constitution, and this duly elected administration.
In short, these activists, politicos, academics, etc. are domestic terrorists, and must be dealt with as such. We ignore them at our own peril.
Simply because they engage in ‘word play’ by hiding behind the First Amendment doesn’t make them any less of a terrorist. Does the phrase ‘The pen is mightier than the sword’ ring a bell?
These activists, politicos, academics, etc. give aid, ideas, and encouragement to the violent street orcs who harass, interfere, and attack LE.
These activists, politicos, academics, etc. are domestic terrorists, and must be dealt with as such. They’re telling you who they are. Don’t ignore them.
That’s O’Sullivan’s law, not Conquest’s. Conquest only formulated two laws, not three. O’Sullivan called this his first law, but it’s been more than 30 years since then and as far as I know he hasn’t yet come up with a second.
“Feldman was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts…writing his dissertation on Aristotelian ethics and its Islamic reception.”
Masshole!!!
Anyone advocates “Resistance” to a democratically elected leader should be questioned about it, publicly, every time they show their face, and not trusted with any position of leadership!
Well, professor, why don’t you just step your ass out there and show ’em how it’s done?
I see no contradiction at all between Feldman having private views of his own, and his saying that the university should be neutral. Did anyone ever imagine that the people calling for the university not to take stances on matters that don’t concern it have no opinions of their own?! Of course they do, and they express those views in their own capacity, not when speaking for the university.
I would see a contradiction in a university professor displaying such consummate ignorance but given that it is a Harvard professor I also see no contradiction at all.
“The main thing is to keep sending a clear message that what’s going on isn’t normal, isn’t okay, and won’t be tolerated.”
Agreed. Contact dean [email protected] and let him know TDS mentally ill “professors” like Feldman should not be indoctrinating kids at Harvard
“In the U.S. system, we are accustomed to police being limited in their ability to grab people up on the streets and send them away to detention centers without hearing or trial”? Uh, these are illegal aliens being detained and deported from the country into which they trespassed, Something every past administration, including the Obama administration, did. This was even the law during the disgraceful Biden years. It’s not just that this Harvard professor is leftist. He’s painfully stupid.
Unfortunately, when liberals say ‘neutrality’ what they mean is ‘hard left is correct’ and all else is ‘fascism.’