Letter from Chip Northrup
High Noon at Harvard
My father went to Harvard. My father-in-law went to Harvard twice—undergrad and law school. Our son was accepted at Harvard but went to Brown. When I asked him why, he said, “You went to Brown.” I replied, “Yes, but I didn’t get into Harvard. Twice.”
Harvard University is one of the first institutions and, thus far, the most prominent, to stand up to Trump’s extortionate shakedown of universities, law firms and corporations. That takes the kind of money, courage and resolve that most institutions don’t have. So, in that, Harvard is a model: of doing what all the other victims would like to do—but don’t have the resources or fortitude to stand up to Trump’s Thought Police.
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