What to Do with the Rot on Our Country’s Campuses?

Wow. In January 2024, more than a year ago and only three months after Harvard’s disgusting turn as Hamas’s Ivied cheerleader, I wrote that the university should be placed in receivership. Lo and behold, someone now in power must have filed my piece in a folder called “good ideas.” Harvard and Columbia are, in effect, headed for a time under both the federal microscope and the federal axe, if the Trump people are serious and know what they’re doing.

I follow the gross misbehavior at our elite colleges and universities, since most of them have exceptional art museums, and, let’s face it, these schools are important. They were once the best in the world, ever, and now they’re a collective dumpster fire. Columbia is on its third president in the past year, all not up to the challenge.

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Brian T. Allen

Brian T. Allen is National Review’s art critic.

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Wow. In January 2024, more than a year ago and only three months after Harvard’s disgusting turn as Hamas’s Ivied cheerleader, I wrote that the university should be placed in receivership. Lo and behold, someone now in power must have filed my piece in a folder called “good ideas.” Harvard and Columbia are, in effect, headed for a time under both the federal microscope and the federal axe, if the Trump people are serious and know what they’re doing.

I follow the gross misbehavior at our elite colleges and universities, since most of them have exceptional art museums, and, let’s face it, these schools are important. They were once the best in the world, ever, and now they’re a collective dumpster fire. Columbia is on its third president in the past year, all not up to the challenge.