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Glenn Greenwald
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Glenn Greenwald
May 24, 2025
Greenwald sorts out the details and contradictions in what is doubtless an intra-oligarchy battle. Glenn notes that at least in the last 10 years Harvard has become a bastion of "WOKE correctness", and a fulcrum for censorship. Indeed, while universities had been traditionally bastions of free speech, Harvard and other leading universities have become ideologically homogenised centers of politically approved ideas instead of free-wheeling fields of ideological debate. Not to mention that while Harvard does lead in important research fields, from medicine to the natural sciences, it is also a world leader in manufacturing instruments of imperialist control. Many prominent "national security" thinkers and players got their degrees from Harvard, along with similar places like Yale, Princeton, MIT, Georgetown and others. It is in that sense that the Trump war on Harvard is a rififi among establishment factions. That said, Trump's heavy-handed and clearly illegal attack on Harvard is liable to damage many aspects os this institution's work that remain of value to society. After all, leading academic institutions have long received government moneys to advance research of interest to the US government, especially of military import. Ultimately, however, the immediate cause of Trump's hostility to Harvard and other prominent academic institutions is that they have been influential seedbeds of anti-Israel agitation, including boycott campaigns.
May 24, 2025
Greenwald sorts out the details and contradictions in what is doubtless an intra-oligarchy battle. Glenn notes that at least in the last 10 years Harvard has become a bastion of "WOKE correctness", and a fulcrum for censorship. Indeed, while universities had been traditionally bastions of free speech, Harvard and other leading universities have become ideologically homogenised centers of politically approved ideas instead of free-wheeling fields of ideological debate. Not to mention that while Harvard does lead in important research fields, from medicine to the natural sciences, it is also a world leader in manufacturing instruments of imperialist control. Many prominent "national security" thinkers and players got their degrees from Harvard, along with similar places like Yale, Princeton, MIT, Georgetown and others. It is in that sense that the Trump war on Harvard is a rififi among establishment factions. That said, Trump's heavy-handed and clearly illegal attack on Harvard is liable to damage many aspects os this institution's work that remain of value to society. After all, leading academic institutions have long received government moneys to advance research of interest to the US government, especially of military import. Ultimately, however, the immediate cause of Trump's hostility to Harvard and other prominent academic institutions is that they have been influential seedbeds of anti-Israel agitation, including boycott campaigns.
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It is not so much the control over anti-Gaza rebellions in the universities as is the (still rather feeble) general stream of resistance which needs to be stopped. Thus we see a repeat of the National Socialist movement in Germany which equally banned universities as an anti-status quo threat. Result was a stream of Jewish scholars and technicians moving to the then freer USA. Just so foreign students will move probably to European universities. When the upper strata in society feel endangered, they will slowly restrict all freedoms, a slow slide into the heavy corporate totalitarianism that has engulfed the Western world.