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Friday, April 18. 2025

Victor is on a roll

My only real beef with this is that you can't compare Hillsdale College with an educational industrial giant like Harvard. Hillsdale College does not need government grants.



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I don't think Harvard needs them either. But the militray does rely on Harvard and MIT, and others.
#1 jack walter on 2025-04-18 14:15 (Reply)
jack walter: I don't think Harvard needs them either.

Federal funding for Harvard includes funding for scientific research, including cancer research. Harvard has had 162 Nobel laureates, including one just last year.
#1.1 Zachriel on 2025-04-18 15:09 (Reply)
If some corporation was performing a federal contract...defense, medical research, whatever..and that same corporation maintained an environment in which Jewish employees were intimidated and discriminated against, would/should the government continue funding them because the work done under the contract was important? Or yank the contract and award it to a more responsible entity?
#2 David Foster (Link) on 2025-04-18 15:58 (Reply)
David Foster: that same corporation maintained an environment in which Jewish employees were intimidated and discriminated against …

Except they haven’t maintained the environment, but worked closely with Jewish groups to address their concerns. The complaints by Trump are clearly pretextual, using the power of government to punish and bring to heel Trump’s perceived enemies. It’s authoritarian by nature, far from any notion of small-government conservatism.
#2.1 Zachriel on 2025-04-18 21:58 (Reply)

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