Harvard’s president beclowned himself as is befitting of the university today.
One of the mistakes that we make is to assume that there are people with no religion. Sure, there are lots of people who will describe themselves as not being Jewish, Christian, or associated with any other formal religion. But that does not mean that they do not have a religion. Any object or ideology to which one ascribes power beyond what it truly has can become a religion unto itself. For many, money is their religion; they figure that if they have enough of it, they can get around all of life’s challenges. Unfortunately, illness and problems with the children can be inert to how much one has in the bank. For many, science has become their religion. That scientists can explain many wonderful and deep secrets of the world around us is impressive. But if there is one lesson to take home from the whole Covid fiasco it is that science is imperfect, and its application is no better than the maniacal egos of its practitioners. Look at the lies of Tony Fauci: he doesn’t know where the six-foot rule came from, he knew that masks did not work, and he cleared the deck of potential treatments in order to force the experimental and dangerous vaccines on the American people. Oh, and people treated him like some holy saint.
Harvard’s graduation is always on the 38th Thursday of the academic year. Like Hogwarts, Harvard has its ancient customs which will change the day after the sun rises in the West. This past Thursday was the anointed day, and Harvard Yard was filled with pomp, circumstance, and hubris. Students and some speakers wore keffiyehs because the school apparently ran out of toilet paper. One speaker at the “Divinity School” spoke of seventy-seven years of Israeli genocide and there being nowhere to hide. Meanwhile on the other side of the world, a Gazan told a reporter that he had taken food from the new U.S. distribution center and praised the IDF and Donald Trump. This woman lives in a fantasy world in her mind completely divorced from the reality of Israel, Gaza and the Palestinians. It is no surprise that a few years ago Harvard hired a “chaplain” who said that he does not believe in God.
And then there was president Alan Garber. He criticized Donald Trump, which apparently he does in his sleep. He talked about the importance of international students who have jumped from the 1990s at 4 percent to nearly 30 percent today. He failed to discuss the Chinese students stealing and transmitting information to the CCP or the Middle Eastern students who have turned Harvard into a Hamas recruiting center. President Garber has chosen sides and he has rejected Donald Trump’s DOJ and the American people. He has instead sided with his heavy foreign donors and the mutant wing of the Democratic Party. President Garber has the added burden of being Jewish, so he has to make sure that he sticks it to Israel and the Jewish members of the Harvard community so as not to be accused of being a “Yehudon”--Jew Boy. He and Half-Penny Pritzker may be Jewish but their religion is intersectionality and pandering to hyper-wealthy foreign sovereign funds.
When I was at Harvard, that motto, “veritas”, actually struck a chord. If Harvard would be dedicated to truth instead of foreign money and neo-Marxist ideology, it would have enforced its own rules that do not allow students to create an unsafe or threatening environment on campus. There is no shortage of stories of Jewish students who have been verbally or physically harassed. I guess that Harvard will wait for the Washington standard of having a couple of Jewish students murdered before it actually ejects students and demands that protests include only Harvard-affiliated individuals and have no references to Jewish and Israeli genocide. Their intersectional dementia will not let them act forcefully before then, even though the protesters and the tent-dwellers have already violated scores of university rules on the books since the days when JFK was a student.
Harvard descending into a government-defunded madrassah is an opportunity for other schools to shine. There are still plenty of super-talented and wildly qualified American students being glossed over by Harvard and other Ivy League drek. They have the brains and moxie to do big things. Schools less obsessed with being intersectional hellholes will grab these students and immediately improve their academics and research. Harvard thinks that it will last forever, but as it limps towards its 400th year, it might just find itself grouped in discussions of Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, and NC State. These are all fine schools, but they are not what Harvard once was—the unquestioned champion.
There is a story of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson (Princeton graduate) visiting Harvard’s president, Charles Eliot. The official statement noted that “Mr. Wilson met with President Eliot.” And Harvard in those days had what to back up that chutzpah? Not any longer. President Garber and Half-Penny Pritzker would rather take Harvard down into the sewer and hold on to their neo-Marxist, pro-jihad religion than right the ship and get Harvard back to something close to normality. The general feeling of alumni whom I know is that Harvard is lost. To fix it would require replacing the entire Corporation and then removing faculty and students who have violated university policies in causing an unsafe environment for Jewish students and staff. Nobody has the kishkes (internal fortitude) for such a mammoth exercise.
What’s happening today at Harvard and on other campuses began decades ago. The universities moving left was a known phenomenon but one generally kept to campus. A few years ago, a woman at a super-lefty campus in Ohio said that she felt threatened by a sign that said, “Men Working.” That was the level of nonsense: local, small-scale and generally laughable. With the importation of a large number of Jew-hating Muslim students and then the spark of the October 7th pogrom, everything became very ugly and very public. One has to wonder about the mental stability of people who warble, “One fight, Palestinian and trans rights.” The Islamists would kill the trans in a second if they could get away with it. But the mental conditioning and loss of critical thinking skills have been on full display. The students’ descent into intellectual hell would not even allow them to condemn the Hamas attack or the many rapes described by eyewitnesses and first responders.
Harvard is lost. Something better will take its place. The U.S. needs top schools, and good students and donors will find them.