How the Ivy League Earned Donald Trump’s Ire

Too many instructors at Harvard, Columbia and elsewhere are less interested in teaching and more interested in student indoctrination

By Jason L. Riley. Excerpts:

"Schools can drop charges and quietly reverse disciplinary actions, as they’ve done in the past, which is one reason these disruptions have continued. It’s clear that the troublemakers don’t take the administration’s warnings seriously. According to the Columbia Spectator, at least one of the students who was detained last week and subsequently suspended from school has been suspended twice before."

"Could unhappy Costco customers take over a store, intimidate employees and other customers, lock managers in their offices, damage inventory, scribble calls to violence on the walls, and then walk away without paying the consequences?"

"The Washington Free Beacon reported that since-deleted messages on the school’s [Harvard] website “bragged about increasing the number of ‘women, non-binary, and/or people of color’ on the faculty.”" 

"Between 2013 and 2023, the nonwhite share of the university’s tenure-track faculty rose by 11 percentage points, while the share of tenure-track faculty who were white men fell by 14 points. Given that the Supreme Court in 2023 scored Harvard for unconstitutional discrimination in student admissions, this is hardly a fishing expedition."

"empirical studies on the political leanings of academics, particularly in the humanities, tell a different story. A Carnegie Foundation faculty survey in 1999 found that 12% of professors called themselves conservative, down from 27% in 1969."

"Conservative representation in the social sciences and humanities has “practically disappeared” from many areas outside of economics"

"Republicans make up 4% of historians, 3% of sociologists, and a mere 2% of literature professors"