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CDR West's avatar

Whenever you're in big financial and social trouble...send in the clowns!

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Ethan R's avatar

Harvard might as well go full satire at this point and just turn "higher education" into a rolling comedy routine.

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Jonathan Gal's avatar

Step right up, get your tickets.

The Ringling Brothers, Harvard, and Garber presents ...

(Cue the Elephants, Lions, and Trapeeze Artists)

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Jonathan Gal's avatar

Institution of Higher Learning?

Or, Three-Ring Circus with Sideshows?

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Art Wilkins's avatar

LaWhore Vagistan for Harvard President!

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blurt's avatar

The inmates have taken over the asylum. An atheist as chief chaplain of the Harvard Divinity School and now this! You can't make this stuff up. Harvard has become a joke. I'm relegating my degree to the cleaning closet.

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SlowlyReading's avatar

I would just like to compliment the Salient on being so based. Back in my day (before I moved to the right) I had a general sense of the Salient as being full of Bush/Romney types. I suppose it mirrors the larger transformation of the Right in the Trump era. Can't imagine that someone like Michael Knowles would have been invited to HLS back in the day. Onwards!

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Michael Segal's avatar

This is a good example with which to ponder applying priority #2 "Marketplace of Ideas and Civil Discourse " in the federal government's proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Compact-for-Academic-Excellence-in-Higher-Education-10.1.pdf

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Aurél Kenessey's avatar

A Harvard bachelor degree says only one thing about the holder: his or her parents are rich. They bought an SAT tutor, an essay ghost writer, one is admitted because of winning a state basket weaving contest or something of the sorts. You spend four years in a program that’s so easy that the average grade awarded is a 3.6 gpa and Harvard prides itself that > 93 % of it admitted rich kids have a BA on the wall four years and instruction by LaWhore later. When will the world wake up to value of the Harvard BA ?

Surprised that Asians and Europeans are intellectually superior?

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CC's avatar
Oct 5Edited

Is DeBlasio still at Harvard teaching 'how to ruin a city'? or Brian Stelter on 'how to get fired from a television network'?

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Axel Kassel's avatar

Perhaps a cabal of MAGA sympathizers within the ivied halls is promoting such appointments to bolster public support for or at least indifference to cutting off the flow of federal funds to Harvard, to intensify parental angst over their checkbook allocations, and to taunt Jimmy Kimmel by flouting news that he dare not mock.

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