5.28.2025

The government wants to take over Harvard but don't worry, the Speaker thinks he's Moses

The Government Details Its Demands 

A general requirement to overhaul Harvard governance would involve its form of incorporation under the Commonwealth charter of 1650 and subsequent interpretations—a significant legal matter, not a snap of the fingers. The Corporation was enlarged and its internal operations were strengthened in 2010, but this new government request is a singularly sweeping, ill-defined demand, not susceptible to “immediate” change.

It's nearly incomprehensible, but then it's the government. And Harvard Magazine. Here's a somewhat less rigorous report from the New York Post, a decidedly right-leaning publication.

Meanwhile, about the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, a Republican and second in line of succession to the throne presidency.…

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