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Steven Levitsky

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With Billions at Risk, Eight Affiliates React

Across the country, the White House has taken the unprecedented step of dangling federal funds as a bargaining chip in its engagement with universities. This week, they came to Harvard under the auspices of an investigation into antisemitism. At a crossroads for our University and higher education as a whole, hear from eight affiliates — among them a former Harvard Hillel President, experts on authoritarianism, and a graduate suing the University — on what comes next. — Max A. Palys ’26 and Saul I.M. Arnow '26, Editorial Chairs


Enough Outside Bullying: Penslar Is the Right Choice To Lead the Antisemitism Task Force

It’s time to say enough. The attacks on professor Derek J. Penslar — and by extension on President Garber for appointing him to this role — exemplify two profoundly worrying trends that threaten Harvard’s very mission.


Letter to the Editor: Government Faculty Oppose Trump’s Partial Ban

International exchanges are essential to good scholarship, and an important way for people of different cultures and political systems to engage constructively with one another.