It seems like the Trump Administration was taken aback by Harvard’s refusal to buckle before the President’s threats in the same way that Columbia University and certain law firms did.

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 It seems like the Trump Administration was taken aback by Harvard’s refusal to buckle before the President’s threats in the same way that Columbia University and certain law firms did. Perhaps some people in the White House now realize that, even as it has halted more than two billion dollars in federal funding to Harvard, it has taken on an adversary that is rich and powerful enough to fight back. 

Harvard’s actions could have important ramifications not just for other universities but also for broader efforts to resist Donald Trump’s encroachments, John Cassidy writes. For the preservation of academic freedom, the President’s decision to target Harvard may turn out to be a fortunate miscalculation.

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