Alan M. Garber, who replaced the plagiarizing DEI hire Claudine Gay as president of Harvard, issued a memo expressing his indignation at the Trump administration for telling it to quit racial discrimination under penalty of losing $9 billion in federal grants.
Garber said, “The administration’s prescription goes beyond the power of the federal government. It violates Harvard’s First Amendment rights and exceeds the statutory limits of the government’s authority under Title VI. And it threatens our values as a private institution devoted to the pursuit, production, and dissemination of knowledge. No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”
I cannot see how a demand that Harvard end its racial discrimination violates the college’s First Amendment rights, so let’s try to figure this out.
On Friday, officials from the General Services Administration, the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Service sent a letter to Garber and Penny Pritzker (Obama’s billionaire commerce secretary and sister of the governor of Illinois) in her capacity as Lead Member of Harvard Corporation.
The Trump administration’s letter said, “Harvard has in recent years failed to live up to both the intellectual and civil rights conditions that justify federal investment. But we appreciate your expression of commitment to repairing those failures and welcome your collaboration in restoring the University to its promise. We therefore present the below provisions as the basis for an agreement in principle that will maintain Harvard’s financial relationship with the federal government.”
While Garber is Jewish, Harvard has a long history of antisemitism in its admissions policy and in recent years has lowered admissions standard for black applicants while raising them for Asian Americans to standards so high mere mortals have little chance of getting in...
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