And, in fact, a separate Harvard task-force found that Muslim, Arab and Palestinian students have felt “abandoned” and even “actively suppressed and repressed”. None of that diminishes the seriousness of the problem of antisemitism on elite campuses as documented by Harvard’s task-force and by one at Columbia University,

Harvard could choose to either keep fighting or seek a deal with the administration. Its leaders are starting to realize that any path will very likely change the identity of the school.

If Trump doesn’t back off on the funds due Harvard and refuses to comply with a Supreme Court ruling overturning the administration’s position, our nation has taken still another step toward a genuine constitutional crisis — which Trump in his megalomania seems to be shooting for.