Harvard University is earning praise for standing up to the Trump administration’s attempts to place burdensome restrictions on the school’s federal funding. The argument is essentially that while there are always strings attached to government cash, in Harvard’s case the strings have become bungee cords, making it inevitable that the funding will be yanked violently back.
The Trump administration is seeking to make the federal funds conditional on the school’s commitment to rooting out anti-Semitism on campus. Harvard’s defenders say the very survival of academic freedom is at stake. The truth is more complicated once we take a look at the central arguments in the case.
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