The fact that the tyrannical rulers of our leading adversary want to send their elites to Harvard for technical education should be a clue of what's wrong with our elite universities
After listening to probably a hundred or more podcasts in which Steve has participated over the years, he is almost like an old friend or family member. I always enjoy what he has to say, and his recent substack in which he essentially called for the demolition of Harvard, in no so many words was sufficient to convince me to become a paying subscriber. The combination of the text of this piece and the attached video drew a clear image of the difference between how schools taught in the 1960s when I was in college and grad school and how they have decayed into what they are today. It is great that such institutions as Pepperdine and Hillsdale still exist, veritable roses among the weeds.
This is not news. In 1980-82 (when I was an MPP student) and 1983-84 (when I was a TA), I never encountered a conservative professor or foundational American content. I don’t recall it being considered relevant. And that was 45 years ago.
There also was no tolerance for students expressing conservative views. To be clear, I was no conservative back then. I had to work at OMB to learn about the real world, and how opposite it was to Harvard’s culture and curriculum.
Public policy programs train students to be more effective liberals. It was always so.
Precisely. We have a simple but difficult course we must follow: gut these universities like the malodorous fish that they are, or continue to allow them to destroy our nation. It really is that simple. (And also applies to our media, and most of our cultural/entertainment institutions). A tall order impossible without a spiritual revival. Impossible in our pagan, globalist secular culture
There don't seem to be any recent references from NU itself promoting that specific phrase. Not sure when any change happened. Most recent references seem to be sarcastic or otherwise negative, coming from people with good memories.
Once Saudi Arabia pulled all of its scholarship students from all but the top-ranked Canadian universities (and ours wasn't among 'em), my institution pivoted to admitting many more students from China. One student enrolled in my course on Education and Public Policy produced a first paper that could have been written for (or by) the New China News Agency. I returned the paper with comments and suggestions about additional sources that would offer alternative points of view. She dropped my course the following day and withdrew from the graduate program altogether. I think that she would have been quite comfortable in all of the other courses.
I'm a Harvard College grad, class of 1972. The class email list has been awash in utterly ignorant outrage that Trump would presume to tell the sainted school what to do. I knew about the antisemitism and other things, but this goes beyond what I was aware of. Outrageous. This should be front-page news.
I'm a life-long computer guy; while at Harvard I worked on programming the ARPA-net, the thing that grew into the internet. Harvard's contributions to early computing were pretty good. But now, the supposed science-based Computer Science is little but a bunch of fashion-chasing nonsense, producing graduates who know little about actually getting computers to do useful stuff. See www.blackliszt.com for more.
Speaking of foreign powers gaining nearby beachheads, we have China and Canada. Creating the laughable Axis of Chairman Xi, King Charles and Mark Carney.
If I were Trump, I'd send a squadron of U.S. Forest Service tankers round the clock to dump water on the Canadian forest fires that are about to foul the air of the upper Midwest for the next several weeks. Round the clock for as long as it takes, call it the Moose Jaw Airlift.
Then we'll see how tough Carney backs up his big talk. He could scramble the jets but I doubt it. Or maybe he'd go to the World Court to defend Canada's right to spew toxins into the air through reckless forest mismanagement. Or else he'd do nothing and confirm to the world that on this continent the U.S. calls the shots.
I did a quick search and saw that Dr. Lieber was convicted of 6 felonies. He was allowed to retire from Harvard. I did not see information as to actual sentence. The Crimson article noted that he had lymphoma. Wikipedia states he served 6 months house arrest and now teaches at a university in China.
After listening to probably a hundred or more podcasts in which Steve has participated over the years, he is almost like an old friend or family member. I always enjoy what he has to say, and his recent substack in which he essentially called for the demolition of Harvard, in no so many words was sufficient to convince me to become a paying subscriber. The combination of the text of this piece and the attached video drew a clear image of the difference between how schools taught in the 1960s when I was in college and grad school and how they have decayed into what they are today. It is great that such institutions as Pepperdine and Hillsdale still exist, veritable roses among the weeds.
This is not news. In 1980-82 (when I was an MPP student) and 1983-84 (when I was a TA), I never encountered a conservative professor or foundational American content. I don’t recall it being considered relevant. And that was 45 years ago.
There also was no tolerance for students expressing conservative views. To be clear, I was no conservative back then. I had to work at OMB to learn about the real world, and how opposite it was to Harvard’s culture and curriculum.
Public policy programs train students to be more effective liberals. It was always so.
Harvard is objectively un-American because it is subjectively anti-American.
Its un-American nature has its roots in the conscious intent of the anti-American people who control it.
So why are we pro-Americans supporting Harvard with money, either through grants or through tax exemptions?
Let's put Harvard and its copycat schools out of our misery.
I'll start with my own alma mater, Northwestern University, which used to bill itself as "The Harvard Of The Midwest."
Precisely. We have a simple but difficult course we must follow: gut these universities like the malodorous fish that they are, or continue to allow them to destroy our nation. It really is that simple. (And also applies to our media, and most of our cultural/entertainment institutions). A tall order impossible without a spiritual revival. Impossible in our pagan, globalist secular culture
Has Northwestern *stopped* calling itself the Harvard of the Midwest? If so, when?
There don't seem to be any recent references from NU itself promoting that specific phrase. Not sure when any change happened. Most recent references seem to be sarcastic or otherwise negative, coming from people with good memories.
Once Saudi Arabia pulled all of its scholarship students from all but the top-ranked Canadian universities (and ours wasn't among 'em), my institution pivoted to admitting many more students from China. One student enrolled in my course on Education and Public Policy produced a first paper that could have been written for (or by) the New China News Agency. I returned the paper with comments and suggestions about additional sources that would offer alternative points of view. She dropped my course the following day and withdrew from the graduate program altogether. I think that she would have been quite comfortable in all of the other courses.
I'm a Harvard College grad, class of 1972. The class email list has been awash in utterly ignorant outrage that Trump would presume to tell the sainted school what to do. I knew about the antisemitism and other things, but this goes beyond what I was aware of. Outrageous. This should be front-page news.
I'm a life-long computer guy; while at Harvard I worked on programming the ARPA-net, the thing that grew into the internet. Harvard's contributions to early computing were pretty good. But now, the supposed science-based Computer Science is little but a bunch of fashion-chasing nonsense, producing graduates who know little about actually getting computers to do useful stuff. See www.blackliszt.com for more.
Thank you to the citation to your website. Very interesting information.
Victor Davis Hanson has made the same observations about U.C.
Commies need a crimson finishing school. Have a heart.
Speaking of foreign powers gaining nearby beachheads, we have China and Canada. Creating the laughable Axis of Chairman Xi, King Charles and Mark Carney.
If I were Trump, I'd send a squadron of U.S. Forest Service tankers round the clock to dump water on the Canadian forest fires that are about to foul the air of the upper Midwest for the next several weeks. Round the clock for as long as it takes, call it the Moose Jaw Airlift.
Then we'll see how tough Carney backs up his big talk. He could scramble the jets but I doubt it. Or maybe he'd go to the World Court to defend Canada's right to spew toxins into the air through reckless forest mismanagement. Or else he'd do nothing and confirm to the world that on this continent the U.S. calls the shots.
I don't see a downside.
One could argue that Harvard is a Chinese school located in America.
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china-related
I did a quick search and saw that Dr. Lieber was convicted of 6 felonies. He was allowed to retire from Harvard. I did not see information as to actual sentence. The Crimson article noted that he had lymphoma. Wikipedia states he served 6 months house arrest and now teaches at a university in China.
There was a time (10 years ago?) when I would have said no. That was then This is Now.
China likes to send its best and brightest to Harvard to learn how to become more effective Communists.
"The Capitalists Will Sell Us the Rope with Which We Will Hang Them"
Vladimir Lenin
Aldrich Ames and John Walker did it for Money. How much money is Harvard getting?
BTW
Inside Harvard’s Discrimination Machine
The university has adopted race-conscious hiring policies, potentially in violation of civil rights law.
Christopher F. Rufo
May 15, 2025
https://christopherrufo.com/p/inside-harvards-discrimination-machine
Imagine thinking Harvard is the problem.