Here’s the list of 60 colleges the Trump administration is now targeting for possible sanctions. I count a total of nine schools from New England. … Is your college on the list? Mine is. And I’m sort of proud of it, similar to how many considered it a badge of honor to be on Richard Nixon’s original enemies list.

… I’m obviously not proud Tufts and other schools stand accused of potential antisemitism. I also don’t want to see the schools slapped with huge financial sanctions. But I don’t for a minute believe antisemitism is the real reason the Trump administration is going after these schools. As noted over the weekend, it’s about ideology. It’s about payback time. It’s about DEI and woke and CRT and radical left-wing professors and earthy environmentalists, and, going way back, the 1960s and Black Panthers and hippies etc, etc., etc. It’s about the raw anti-leftwing sentiment that’s totally consumed the right. Sooner or later, they’re going to crack down on a school for whatever reason. Might as well make the list now. … 

Update – Like Larry Summers, I have my own principled complaints about colleges, such as their infuriating double-standards on campus free speech and their long-time intolerance of non-lefty viewpoints on campus, etc. But as Summers said of the Trump administration’s recent Columbia action: “This kind of heavy-handed indiscriminate sanction will slow scientific progress, deny opportunity, chill legitimate discourse, and undermine the rule of law.” … Summers comments via Globe.