Fixing Elite Universities Means Firing Bad Trustees, Starting with Harvard’s

Two topics today. Will Harvard capitulate this week to charges of flagrantly violating federal civil rights laws, and what ought the government require of it? And are the three core federal agencies supporting the arts dead or alive?

Americans are pithy, in-your-face sloganeers. There’s “damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead,” courtesy of Admiral Farragut; “no pain, no gain,” as Ben Franklin, not Jack LaLanne, first said; and “don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes” — ancestry endless, but let’s say that someone American, fighting for freedom against awful people, said it, maybe on Bunker Hill. Let’s add, for now, until the Augean stable called Harvard is cleansed, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Penny Pritzker’s got to go.” It’s a one-line chant, composed by me a few weeks ago, tuneful and succinct. Let’s make it happen.

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Two topics today. Will Harvard capitulate this week to charges of flagrantly violating federal civil rights laws, and what ought the government require of it? And are the three core federal agencies supporting the arts dead or alive?

Americans are pithy, in-your-face sloganeers. There’s “damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead,” courtesy of Admiral Farragut; “no pain, no gain,” as Ben Franklin, not Jack LaLanne, first said; and “don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes” — ancestry endless, but let’s say that someone American, fighting for freedom against awful people, said it, maybe on Bunker Hill. Let’s add, for now, until the Augean stable called Harvard is cleansed, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Penny Pritzker’s got to go.” It’s a one-line chant, composed by me a few weeks ago, tuneful and succinct. Let’s make it happen.