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Harvard Has Purged Its Values Alongside Its DEI Websites

By Eli M. Visio
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Harvard thrives on a precedent of convenient non-communication. But make no mistake, this was a choice. A choice to strip away our infrastructure in the shadows, replace identity-based support with ambiguous language, comply without admitting they're doing it, and commence the destruction of our communities.

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President Garber, a Bad Deal With Trump Will Not Protect Us

But without academic freedom, Harvard can no longer call itself a university. A deal with the White House can never infringe on our pursuit of veritas by allowing the federal government to restrict which courses we can take, students can be admitted, and professors can stay. Harvard can never be complicit in infringing on our personal rights to integrity and free speech.

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This Isn’t Negotiation. It’s Authoritarian Extortion.

Defending democracy requires sacrifice. There are moments when we must pay a price to ensure the long-term survival of our basic freedoms. This is one of those moments.

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What Makes Harvard Great

The same forces behind events like January 6th and anti-LGBTQ legislation are driving the assault on higher education fueled by an unrelenting obsession with all things “DEI.” Their real target? Multicultural democracy and human freedom.

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Who Does Harvard Owe?

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This year, Harvard has been pulled in every direction — by Congress, donors, media, and its own constituents. In all the noise, one fundamental question remains unanswered: Who gets a say as to how Harvard is governed?

What Does Harvard Owe?

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None of these debts will be paid by defensive press releases or another round of task-force PowerPoints. They will be paid only by the hard, communal work of building a Harvard that is both excellent and broadly, unapologetically egalitarian.

Harvard’s International Students Are People — Not Pawns

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Make no mistake: This is an attack on the fundamental value of pluralism — worthwhile for its own sake and fundamental to excellence and innovation. To protect our peers’ right to continue their education, Harvard can’t stop fighting back.

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Fight Fiercely for Harvard Values

Experienced voices are calling this a moment of existential crisis for Harvard and for American higher education. But for the Class of 2025 this crisis is also an opportunity: to fight fiercely for the values that Harvard has instilled in you, as it did in me when I matriculated here in the Class of 1964.

I’m a Proud Zionist. Here’s Why I Ran a Famously Pro-Palestine Editorial Board.

As Hillel President and Editorial Chair, I learned the times I spoke with peers who disagreed with me led to the greatest understanding and sympathy at a time when divisions consumed our campus. It is up to us all to fight for respectful discourse.

To the Class of 2025: Congratulations on a Life Lived in Four Years

In college you have played, consciously or otherwise, at the fullness of life. As you confront the end of this span of your lives, you have the blessing of reflecting on and growing from what you did and who you were, and thereby the opportunity to begin your adult lives wiser and stronger.

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Come At Me, Bro

I propose an alternate strategy: I shall fight Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon in a televised cage match, the winner of which gets $2.7 billion in federal grants and the power to uphold or destroy America’s continued technological and economic success. Secretary, I hope you brought your mouth guard.

With Discipline Changes, Harvard Listened to Trump — Not Students

Harvard’s discipline problem starts with who’s missing from the room. Until students win seats at the table and presidential decree is swapped for participatory governance, inconsistent justice simply becomes consistent injustice.

Viewpoint Diversity and the Scientists

Yet, when we turn from science to the humanities we encounter postmodern arguments like Kuhn’s helpless relativism. Far from giving reason why science might be good, the humanities fail to justify themselves. They know they are not science, but then what are they, and what do they know?