By Jay Fitzgerald – A blog about Boston, Hub of the Universe, and everything else.


‘Harvard Derangement Syndrome’: A long-time critic of the university uncorks on you-know-who

I wasn’t going to write about Harvard this week. What more could I add to the latest outrageous Trump administration assault on the university? Then I saw this NYT opinion piece by Steven Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard, and I couldn’t resist. The reason: Pinker, as he notes in his piece, is a long-time critic of Harvard’s past ugly bouts with campus political correctness/woke-ism, etc., etc. After establishing his bonafides as a centrist critic of the university, Pinker rightly unloads on the ‘unhinged’ Trump administration’s attacks on Harvard. … I could also explain in detail how the administration’s treatment of Harvard is a classic example of the Trump 10/90 Rule. But I won’t. I’ll merely point it out.

Update –– This is encouraging, via the Globe: “Judge halts Trump ban on foreign students at Harvard.”


Published by