Harvard’s president saved the day when I could not write about an attack on Iran that has not yet happened.
Harvard promised us as we motored out of Cambridge that it would always be there for us. And while I think that they had other services in mind, I have to thank the current president of the university for providing comic material periodically to my email. His words are delusional. Harvard used to be the preeminent American university; now it is a left-wing incubator for unchallenged youth. It is riding on its reputation, but even that can only take it so far.
Harvard is very proud of its traditions. For example, graduation is always the 39th Thursday of the term. During my day, some students asked to have final exams before winter vacation so we could have study-free fun like our friends from other schools. The dean of students answer: “You are here for four years, we are here for our careers, and Harvard is here forever!”
Back to President Alan Garber, M.D. In his latest missive, he tells the university’s hundreds of thousands of alumni that things couldn’t be better. The title of his long note is “Looking Ahead” and begins his ruminations with the following:
“The past two years tested us. We confronted fundamental questions about our values and actions—how we combat hatred while protecting free expression, ensure genuine viewpoint diversity, and create environments where challenging ideas can be debated, not suppressed. We had hard conversations and made real changes.”
While President Garber is a distinguished professor of medical economics, he could have worked at any PR firm in the world. What are Harvard’s supposed “values”? And exactly what “hatred” did Harvard combat? One of the features of recent Harvard presidents and Hamas supporters is pure cowardice. Two presidents ago, “Call me Larry” Bacow found a student recording a private Harvard Senate meeting. He demanded that the student leave. The student did not budge. So Bacow continued the meeting with the student recording everything. A real president would have called the Harvard Police and then ejected the student from the university. Claudine Gay did not have the spine to confront the students whose views on the destruction of Israel she did not find to be contextually problematic. And then we have Alan Garber. He suspended some students and rolled up the tents in time for the wealthy Harvard community to come to graduation; after the last Lear jet left Logan Airport, he reinstated the students he kicked out.
Leadership requires an element of fear. And Harvard presidents have traded student fear for student approval. They want to be buddies with the students. They don’t want to do anything that might upset them. And this cowardice fits well with the Hamas wing that they refuse to confront. “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free!” What does that mean? You imply a state free of Jews. What exactly happens to the 7.5 million Jews who currently live in Israel? “Intifada revolution!” Do you wish suicide bombings, drive-by shootings, stabbings, vehicular attacks on Jews all over the world? They never come out and say, “Let’s kill the Jews!” Like the Hamas cowards who raped women and decapitated babies, and claimed to be "resisting", they are so terrified of the truth that they cannot come right out and say what they have in their hearts. Wrestling an attacking grizzly is “resistance”; shooting a crippled child and her caretaker father at the Nova Festival is pure evil.
Garber continues in his email:
“The questions facing humanity—from the future of governance to the challenges of climate change, from the promises and perils of automation to the persistence of illness and disease—demand exactly the kind of ambitious, boundary-crossing work that Harvard does so well. How can society ensure that democratic institutions and norms remain resilient in the face of division and turmoil around the world?”
Garber lists different research projects at Harvard and he sounds like the Monty Python hospital administrator discussing “the machine that goes ping”. It is a reach for Harvard to be discussing “democratic institutions” when parts of the Kennedy School are CIA affiliates that work to destroy the democratic choice of Donald Trump. Mike Benz has shown frequently how Harvard and other top schools work with the CIA on projects for governmental change. It’s not for nothing that Hilary Clinton, Mike Pompeo and other former spooks are currently all together on the Columbia faculty. Harvard does have a mission for the US, but it’s too demanding to produce competent, thoughtful future leaders of the country. Rather, it has gone full indoctrination. Doing research while believing that “climate change” is real and that men can give birth means that one’s research is of limited value to society. Garber has been vocal in criticizing the Trump White House for reducing federal support for Harvard research. He seemed to lose the first act in the play, where Harvard allowed an antisemitic frenzy to take over campus, while Jews worried for their safety. Harvard cannot get its house in order because it would require it to stand up to donor Qatar and change its view of Jews as rich, white intersectional oppressors. Better to attack Trump.
There are many people who can be unbearable. Professors full of themselves are generally at the top of the list. In his close, Garber offers the following:
“Reaching our goals reaffirms that rigorous inquiry combined with genuine openness to different perspectives produces better answers; that disagreement, pursued seriously and generously, leads to truth more reliably than an unquestioned consensus; that institutions dedicated to knowledge and learning, for their own sake and for the benefit of humanity, remain essential to democracy and human flourishing.”
What disagreement is allowed on Harvard campus? Each faculty contributes at over 90% to the Democratic Party. The few conservative professors could ride a bicycle built for two and still have an open seat. Islam is not into “disagreement pursued seriously and generously”. Qatar, the Muslim Brotherhood and the fully-paid-up students sent from the Middle East have a very simple proposal: my way or run over on the highway. The pro-Hamas positions will not give Israel and Jews an inch. They never denounced the rapes, torture, and mass murder. Nope, the Jews were 100 percent guilty of being killed and they deserved it. There is no “Sharia Lite” that they would accept. They want everything according to the letter of Islamic law. Jews are more than happy to discuss, debate and, where relevant, compromise. Not so for those who blocked students on campus or spit on others. The intolerant left is Garber’s problem, but since there is nobody on the other side, he figures that there must be collegial debates going on in Harvard Yard.
The left lives for “uncontested consensus” over truth. The climate fraud is based on nobody questioning ridiculous data massaging or failed cataclysmic predictions. The seas have not swallowed Miami, the ice and polar bears are still thriving, and yes, snow still exists. At Harvard and similar indoctrination centers, one is not allowed to move away from Accepted Views. Say that trans is a mental illness or that guys really are much stronger than women, and you will eat alone in the dining hall. I just saw that my trainer won Mr. Israel for squats at 280 kilos. Ms. Israel claimed her title at 90 kilos.
Harvard is in desperate need of fundamental reform. Nobody there, from Half-Penny Pritzker down, is capable of making the school a place of true intellectual curiosity and contribution to the country. At Harvard, they have every type of diversity except for that of viewpoint—everybody is on the left. Nothing changes until the faculty and students are 50 percent conservative.