The grown-ups involved (with the exception of the tuition-paying parents and the future graduates), Kahn suggests: "The Deans can proudly tell the Provost that they have created a popular new major and thus they deserve to be promoted to Provost. A 1949 piece by Lyons in the Atlantic defended Harvard against a Chicago Tribune series reporting "In textbooks, student activities and the writings and speeches of some instructors, THE TRIBUNE found proof that the Ivy League is infested with the pedagogic termites of communism, socialism, world federalism, Anglo-American federalism and other foreign-born schemes which would weaken or destroy the American republic." The Segal executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Robert Satloff, called the award "another sad comment on the state of journalistic coverage of the Gaza war and the refusal of America's media establishment to come to grips with that reality."
Author: February 18, 2026
Published at: 2026-02-18 00:00:00
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