Nick Kristof: Trump Went After Harvard Because Like Putin, Xi and Orban, He Doesn’t Want ‘Alternative Sources of Information’

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KRISTOF: “I think the Trump Administration is going after Harvard for the same reason that Vladimir Putin went after universities in Russia, that Xi Jinping went after universities in China, that Viktor Orban went after universities in Hungary. Authoritarians don’t want alternative sources of information, of moral judgment, of alternative ideas. They want full control. And, you know, the idea that this is about anti-Semitism when the Trump Administration itself is defending neo-Nazis in Charlottesville or hanging out with descendants of Nazis, in terms of the Afd in Germany, it’s just ludicrous. I mean, he can start by dealing with his own administration if he wants to make a run at anti-Semitism. What this is is about control, and the idea that somehow he’s going to, you know, address anti-Semitism by reducing cancer research at Harvard Medical School or heart disease research or, you know. Research on Lou Gehrig’s disease is just ludicrous. And, I mean, thank God for Harvard and showing the spine to resist.”