Harvard
April 21, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Harvey Mansfield is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government emeritus at Harvard and the author of many distinguished books, including this year’s The Rise and Fall of Rational Control, published by Harvard University Press. Not published by Harvard University Press is Professor Mansfield’s Where Harvard Went Wrong: Fifty Years of Commentary That Fell On Deaf Ears, forthcoming from Encounter Books on May 12. I go back with Professor
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March 21, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon and others under her supervision have sued Harvard over the university’s “toothless non-response to the ongoing relentless antisemitic on-campus discrimination.” Ira Stoll covers the lawsuit for the Washington Free Beacon and links to the 44-page complaint posted online here by the Department of Justice. We have all witnessed the almost unbelievable nonfeasance of the Harvard administration in the face of the torment of Jewish students.
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March 10, 2026 — John Hinderaker
Another sign of the sad decline of higher education: Professors are calling out the alarming rise in students diagnosed as “disabled” at elite universities to get special accommodations in class and on exams. One in five students at Brown and Harvard are now registered as having some form of disability, according to an analysis by The Atlantic — but professors suspect some of them are bogus. Do ya think? I
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February 2, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Something has happened to the Department of History at Harvard. The former chairman of Harvard’s history department is boasting that he helped transform the faculty from a “white male affinity group” into a more globally diverse operation. In an opinion piece for the Harvard Crimson, the professor, Sidney Chalhoub, characterized the department of the early 1990s as insular and exclusionary and lauded its evolution into a faculty that’s now drawn
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December 6, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Readers may recall the case of the the rat-hunting Harvard Law School professor and gun-control activist arrested for firing a pellet gun outside a Brookline synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur. I wrote about it in “Hunting rats in Brookline” and in “Green hills of Brookline.” The hunter was Professor Carlos Portugal Gouvea. He has now agreed to self-deport. I doubted the veracity of of Professor Gouvea’s denials that
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October 8, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I noted the story of visiting Harvard Law Professor Carlos Portugal Gouvea. Having promoted gun control in Brazil, Professor Gouvea was arrested hunting rats in Brookline after security officers at a nearby temple heard him firing a pellet gun on the eve of Yom Kippur. In my post I think I condensed the relevant facts from three sources, including the Washington Free Beacon. The Free Beacon follows up today in
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October 6, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I wouldn’t be aware of the story of visiting Harvard Law professor Carlos Portugal Gouvea if it weren’t for the post below on X. It’s almost unbelievable and the gist of it is in fact disputed by the perpetrator. Carlos Portugal Gouvea, a visiting Harvard Law professor, was arrested in Brookline, MA for firing a pellet gun at Temple Beth Zion on Yom Kippur. Read that again – a Harvard
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October 4, 2025 — Scott Johnson
On Thursday the New York Post reported that Harvard has hired drag queen LaWhore Vagistan as a visiting professor. On Friday Post columnist Kirsten Fleming reiterated the story with an attitude “When it comes to ‘LaWhore Vagistan’ at Harvard, I’m not even outraged — it’s hilarious.” Over the past two years Harvard has spinelessly tolerated the tormenting of its Jewish students by Hamas supporters on campus. It deserves to be
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August 12, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The administration’s criticisms of academic institutions have been met with claims that any interruption of funding by the federal government will result in a catastrophic decline in medical research–as if that were the only thing that universities do, or that the government funds. But the universities’ defense is wisely chosen, as voters are very much in favor of medical research and inclined to give universities and researchers the benefit of
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July 12, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Harvard University has been negotiating with the Trump administration over various issues, including foreign students. How those negotiations are going varies depending on who is being quoted. As part of its effort to mollify the administration, Harvard reportedly is considering opening a conservative center on campus: Harvard is considering creating a centre for conservative scholarship as it seeks to end its months-long dispute with Donald Trump. America’s oldest university is
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July 1, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday I quoted from the Department of Education letter notifying Harvard that it is charged with a violation of Title VI for tolerating anti-Semitism on campus. I was unable to find a copy of the letter online at the time, but have now posted it below via Scribd courtesy of Jessica Schwalb’s Washington Free Beacon story “Harvard Violated Jewish Students’ Civil Rights, Trump Admin Finds While Threatening Remaining Federal Funding.”
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June 30, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The Wall Street Journal has broken the story “Harvard Violated Students’ Civil Rights, Trump Administration Finds.” Natalie Andrews and Douglas Belkin report: The Trump administration informed Harvard University that its investigation found it had violated federal civil-rights law over its treatment of Jewish and Israeli students, putting the federal funding of the nation’s oldest university further at risk. The investigation is the latest in the battle between the White House
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June 10, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Harvard Professor Steven Pinker wrote the 4,000 word column “Harvard Derangement Syndrome” that the New York Times published on May 23. The Hoover Institution’s Peter Berkowitz was a member of the Harvard faculty once upon a time. He offers a biting counterpoint in the RealClearPolitics column “Steven Pinker’s damning defense of Harvard.” Berkowitz writes in his conclusion (please read the whole thing, links omitted below): * * * * *
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May 30, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Those were the topics I talked about last night with James Morrow on the U.S. Report, on Sky News Australia. It was a fun conversation as always. In addition to hosting the U.S. Report, James is also one of the three hosts on Sky News’ Outsiders program: I think you will enjoy it:
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May 28, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The Trump administration has taken a series of actions against Harvard University, and has stated explicitly that it is making an example out of Harvard: “Let this serve as a warning” to other universities, DHS said. Yesterday, NPR interviewed Harvard President Alan Garber on his university’s clash with the administration: Alan Garber: In my view, the federal government is saying that we need to address antisemitism in particular, but it
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May 23, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The Trump administration has more or less declared war on Harvard University. Its most recent attack is the Department of Homeland Security’s revoking Harvard’s participation in F-1 and J-1 visa programs, under which foreign students attend Harvard. If that revocation stands up, it means that Harvard will not have any foreign students. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem wielded the hatchet in this case. This DHS press release describes Noem’s letter “demanding
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May 21, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Omar Sultan Haque is a long-time teacher at Harvard. It appears that he is currently a lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has also taught Anthropology, Psychology, and Religion and Law at Harvard. See his own mind-bobbling profile here. Chris Rufo and Ryan Thorpe interviewed Dr. Haque for City Journal in “Harvard Researcher: the University Is ‘Totally Corrupted.’” In the concluding question they asked
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