While he claims there is a big problem with anti-Semitism at Harvard (I wonder if any criticism of Israel's genocide in Gaza is construed as anti-Semitism), President Alan Gerber makes a stout defence of universities in this interview with Lester Holt.
The attacks described above are, of course, all of a piece. The war on intelligence, critical thinking and higher education seems almost inevitable as Trump's Amerika seeks to totally control the message.
The message: profound ignorance good; disagreement with authority very, very bad, and comes with severe consequences.
