So Harvard is bristling over the $50 million deal Brown University recently cut with the Trump administration, as the NYT reports. Can’t blame them. Harvard is looking at a deal that could cost it $500 million, or ten times more than what Brown is paying. It’s not fair. It doesn’t make sense. But of course it’s not fair. And of course it doesn’t make sense. That’s because Harvard is dealing with an irrational, unpredictable, impulsive president surrounded by hand-picked loyalists whose top priority is to obey his every irrational, unpredictable, impulsive demand. The president has privately decided Harvard must pay more for its transgressions, and so it must be, his followers have concluded. …