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April 21, 2026

How Harvard Betrayed Its Mission

Scholarship is supposed to stand above the fray. Claudine Gay thought otherwise.

Not only have the universities been epicenters of anti-Israel agitation over the past years, but they have sown hostility toward Jews and Zionism in the minds of a whole generation of America’s educated class. As Roy Altman argued in last week’s podcast, the hatred for Israel is a product of a much deeper rot. Harvey Mansfield, a scholar of political philosophy who for many years played the role of Harvard’s sole conservative, addresses the problem:

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