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This is an insane perversion of the powers entrusted to a president. What law did those students break? How exactly do they threaten national security? If a president allowed to lawlessly destroy any private institution he hates, United States democracy has ended. Take action to save it.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Understand that Trump's attacks on Harvard are pure authoritarianism: the use of the power of the state to target political foes. This is a struggle for democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/u...

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Finally some Cambridge street cred! My barber said that he had seen me in the news. Just got go solve that riddle I see while mopping the floors at MIT, and I’m made.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Four University of Copenhagen #UCPH research projects have now lost their US funding, and more are at risk. Rector @daviddlassen.bsky.social describes what is unfolding in the US as »an attack on the established university system«. uniavisen.dk/en/universit... @marchvidkjaer.bsky.social ‬

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Any university leader doing this deserves all the shame that history will bestow upon them. www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Classic moment at Harvard Sq. See second 12: "Humanity rises and falls as one" -- The scene in the background is almost too good to be true. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC32...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

We’re fixing Atlantic Avenue! This is what a comprehensive community-led rezoning looks like 🏠

submitted 7 days ago • 51 comments

Interesting observation by the @nytimes.com We (Harvard, universities, civil society generally) may come stronger out of this, as we find common cause. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain needs a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily need universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

submitted 7 days ago • 228 comments

"This is a fight for democracy and the rule of law. These are the principles that unite us. We are not here to protect our diplomas or to protect Harvard’s endowment. We are here because there is an idea in America, represented by all of you, that is worth fighting for."

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

A view of the Harvard Kennedy School forum this morning

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This is aging all too well

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This is where I will be this afternoon. Stand with our international students. Stand with Harvard. The fight for their rights is about the rule of law in this country.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Reading a chapter on how to spot fakers in markets (from 2022), citing research by…

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Kyiv School of Economics offering academic refuge for Harvard University students.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

"“Trump has a way of unifying people – Canadians, Australians, Harvard faculty, you name it,” says Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard."

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

www.csmonitor.com/USA/Educatio...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Real profiles in courage here. Donald Trump's administration is waging war, on numerous fronts, against America's core values of individual liberty, private enterprise, and openness.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Regardless of methodological clan, this is interesting

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Two-level soft power? The state may lose some, but an institution may preserve it. The strength of liberal democracy?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Hard to imagine a bigger self-inflicted wound. The envy of the world brought to ruin.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

This portends a dramatic reshaping of American government. Essentially an undoing of the modern bureaucratic state. Returning America to a pre-modern past.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

submitted 14 days ago • 315 comments

The international students at Harvard contribute more to this country in one day than the low-life wannabe authoritarians in the Trump administration will in a lifetime.

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

The collapse of the rule of law in America feels a bit like 1989 but in a bad way. A reference point for decades just gone in weeks

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

"“I am writing to inform you that effective immediately, Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification is revoked,” according to a letter sent to the university by Kristi Noem" all Harvard internationals may be out now www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

One morning, sitting in an immigration office in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen found himself transformed. A day before, he was a welding foreman, a husband and father of four. Now, he was a detainee, bound and shackled in a detention shuttle in Tennessee. www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...

submitted 15 days ago • 39 comments

Extracting billions (mostly in foreign money) from the presidency www.bloomberg.com/features/202... Exactly what the Founders feared and hoped to prevent.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

To the extent that Donald Trump is an existential threat to the American republic (he is), I think it's probably worth spending at least a little time interrogating how almost all the major figures in the Democratic Party thought it was more important to soothe a feeble old man's ego than win.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

1. this case was solved because of broad coverage, and shows the cost of a lack of self-regulation, 2. we may some times want to sacrifice accuracy for expediency, and discuss results as we check them I do not see that this case has shown downsides sharing early; quite the contrary

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Aristokratiske tider i DK. Interessant karakter.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment