Trump’s magnificence warfare on Harvard – podcast

Harvard University filed a lawsuit in opposition to the Trump management on Monday at the grounds {that a} fresh $2bn (£1.5bn) investment freeze used to be illegal. It is probably the most important act of resistance taken by way of a US school in line with Trump’s crackdown on upper schooling.

Ed Pilkington, leader reporter for Guardian US, explains to Michael Safi that capitulating to Trump’s calls for would have critically undermined Harvard’s popularity, and that the management used to be focused on it for being a bastion of liberal concept.

As Pilkington describes, on the identical time Trump is tapping right into a deep seam of resentment against upper schooling that has been construction in the United States as the price of school attendance rockets and extra folks see the liberal concepts rising from universities as inappropriate to their lives.

The pair talk about the way in which Harvard is attempting to attraction to the general public by way of highlighting its contributions to society and whether or not without equal survival of upper schooling’s autonomy will likely be decided by way of the regulation courts or the court docket of public opinion.

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