Cheers, Mark, this one is especially superb. As a recovering leftie (that is, a working class intellectual, not a tantrum throwing bourgeois narcissist) I spent years studying revolutionary movements, trying to understand the factors that made some genuinely useful to society, and some complete disasters. (which is why I recognized “Political correctness” was poison to any positive left aspiration, thirty years ago). But I have to say, the way PP completely discards all of the grand moral framing is strong as can be. Applied realism. Now I’m feeling a bit dumb in not getting there myself, since “Cui Bono” is still the most useful trick we ever learned on the left. ;o)
Thank you sincerely for what you do.
(the more I try to convey confusing truths myself, the more I appreciate all the work you put in).
There are revolutions and revolutions. What was REALLY revolutionary in this merry month of May was that for the first time in history daily transactions via SWIFT were out paced by daily transactions via CIPS, the Chinese equivalent. Now that's a revolution - and it was reported precisely nowhere in the MSM.
Trump et. al. are, whether they know it or not, putting a stake through the heart of the Enlightenment project, itself already engaged in self-murder. Harvard is the perfect target: elites, communist program, feeder for the IC and State, who have already tried to destroy Trump and the rest of us by selling us to the globalists and, finally, a knife in the back of the Soros style agitprop.
I, for one, think charges of anti-semitism and CCP infiltration are convenient buzz words. Everyone thinks, "of course." Meanwhile you go about dismantling the neo-BLM projects that are in the works before they get off the ground. Kahlil, for example, is from City of London and now he's sitting in a holding tank in Louisiana, where he can be interrogated at leisure, and whatever he was cooking up at Columbia is 86'd, with only a few peeps about free speech left behind.
I am bothered by the government--in this case President and DHS Secretary--accusing a school of multiple mideeds, and subsequently taking over what is in effect a private university.
Before I write more: I do not support propaganda courses teaching falsehoods, training students how to think and act like globalists, or teaching that one group or race is superior to another.
If government officials do not like some of the courses that Harvard offers, then stop giving them money. If the government does not approve of a Harvard research project, do not finance it.
I would like to know details about the charges of racism against the school. Were Jewish students mocked, bullied, or beat up by other students? Did professors treat Jewish students unfairly?
I am thinking that anti-genocide protests on campus play a part here. 'It's not nice to criticize Mother Israel!'
I noted that associations with both China and Iran were included in the govt's charges. Is this because the "Axis of Evil" still exists, according to the US govt? Thus Russia, China, and Iran are bad--they are the enemies of the US? Some may say Russia is not in the enemy axis...if they aren't, then why is the US continuing to arm and finance the green goblin and his orcs in Ukraine as they then harm and kill Russian civilians and soldiers?
I am praying for a good settlement here with Harvard, and with other universities upcoming.
A final question: what will happen to Harvard's foreign students that do not transfer to another school? Will they be deported, and perhaps first placed in a Louisiana prison?
Excellent points. With a +50 billion endowment, why take taxpayer funds? As an aside, I wonder how many “Harvard trained” lawyers are responding to their alma mater’s lawsuit against the Trump admin?! More ironies…
Trump is making an incredible error -- his stated goal to reduce antisemitism and anti Americanism
The opposite will occur worldwide - everyone sees this for what it is
Instead Trump should have insisted in a broader teaching/professor staffing
an equal weight of Conservative Republican Libertarian Democrat and Far left teachings / teachers
Trump missed a valuable moment where few could argue - a change in the voices teaching all areas of law and society rather than a willy nilly removal of certain students
Trump has been making incredible errors - very bad judgment
Harvard is not a university, it is a business, sponsored by US government to conceive and carry out policies favorable to US money interests.
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--If that is the case, why shut it down?
Suggest the pattern of the jewel wasp explains the phenomenon, if you imagine that Harvard is the cockroach that has been used by the jewel wasp, has done its job, and is now a useless entity. (Didn't Bibi say something about using USA until time to blow it away like a dry leaf?)
Where to begin with the ironies…I’m thinking of (Harvard!) mega-donor Bill Ackman who, a mere six months ago, was calling for Harvard’s then president Claudine Gay, and its board, headed by Penny (aptly named) Pritzker, to resign due to fiscal mismanagement and the infestation of DEI which he blames for antisemitism on campus. Now we could say Trump has picked up this ball and thrown it to Noem, who has just heaved it at Harvard…haven’t been on X, but Ackman must be quite nervous!
Ackman pointed out, on X, I think, how difficult it is for Harvard to generate the money it needs because so much of its wealth is tied up in property, etc. that cannot be easily liquidated. Also, just this afternoon, Dr Malone posted a great analysis of what is going on at Harvard, including Course Titles/ Summaries. It was enlightening, to say to the least. Worth a look!
Tx Marie - yes I did read Dr Malone’s article. Also, I heard from a friend, a former professor of Spanish at Loyola, that about 25% of foreign students at Harvard are…Chinese.
Marie, I had just read Dr. Malone's recent post WWF: Pres. Trump vs. Harvard. I read through the sampling of Harvard courses that teach the history of communism in China, law courses in how to handle different kinds of justice cases, and more. I do not know which of the courses listed are required.
I have a degree in Psychology. My required coursework included introductions to theorists with whom I did not agree. I chose not to pursue study (as electives) of those particular theories.
In most colleges nowadays, I daresay comparable courses to those listed by Dr. Malone are likely offered. If I was in the process of choosing a college, if I saw one or more required courses as repugnant to my faith, my morals, and my worldview...I would not attend that college.
There were no gender courses, no CRT or DEI courses, offered at my school.
While we are talking about coursework in the last century, I had US History AND Civics in jr. high. Those were taught in the Chicago Public school that I attended.
Yes, for me 48 years ago! I had great high school teachers, we had to write a senior thesis (I did mine on Mars!). We learned citing sources, footnotes, looking at conflicting info, etc. etc. We had advanced math, physics, everything. College was a super let down. I didn't understand the left-leaning aspect back then, I just thought they were all seriously deluded!!😊
You were trained well in high school, Marie. You learned not only the subject matter as you prepared your thesis, you learned how to present it properly on paper. Do they still use paper in high school and college?
In HS, I took a class titled "The Research Paper". We were instructed to use index cards as we researched--sources, quotes, thoughts were each written onto a card. When I was ready to write, I placed all in order for good flow and accurate presentation. The cards were a great help for college papers!
I also took shorthand and typing in HS~two courses that paid off big as skills for actually not only my time as a college student, but into my current golden years. : )
If I'm not mistaken, Ackman pulled his sponsorship/money out of Harvard last year, around the time the Jewish "Exodus" program was announced by Eric Cohen of Tikvah --
I believe we may in the midst of a much needed counter revolution.
I recall some shyster proclaiming and making his own a few years back, “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
If I recall correctly, that performer was a product of Harvard as well.
This recent post by Larry Johnson shows literacy rates in 1925, 1955 and 2024 for China, Russia and the US. Guess which country has had a 20% drop in literacy rates since 1955?
I recently read - I believe it was Harvard - but in the 1960s students studied 25 hours a week and about 15% of the students got A's. Now, students study 15 hours a week and about 50% of the students get A's.
Yeah, I used to buy the idea that Harvard was an academically elite institution, like I still believe with, say, the cal tech or mit physics program. But David Hogg's admission and subsequent graduation demonstrates that Harvard's academic rigor is really no tougher than San Jose State.
David Hogg got into Harvard because he's a high profile Jew and an extreme radical. If you look at the percentage of Jews in Ivy League schools and their population numbers they are way over represented. This is what constant accusations of antisemitism gets you. Same with racism claims. The United States is not a racist nation. Yes, racists exist here, but they exist everywhere and often in higher numbers outside of the USA.
I have long said this for small town America in places where I have lived, "good ole boys get replaced and those who replace become the good ole boys."
"9/ But this is misleading. Revolutions are simply a rapid cycling of elites, where an incumbent elite - usually one that is dysfunctional - is eliminated and replaced with a new elite. They have happened throughout human history, long before the left-right divide emerged."
I appreciate your dives into these topics. I must admit that I’m often “not getting” the full big picture but it’s good to stretch my brain nonetheless. Keep it coming, thank you.
Cheers, Mark, this one is especially superb. As a recovering leftie (that is, a working class intellectual, not a tantrum throwing bourgeois narcissist) I spent years studying revolutionary movements, trying to understand the factors that made some genuinely useful to society, and some complete disasters. (which is why I recognized “Political correctness” was poison to any positive left aspiration, thirty years ago). But I have to say, the way PP completely discards all of the grand moral framing is strong as can be. Applied realism. Now I’m feeling a bit dumb in not getting there myself, since “Cui Bono” is still the most useful trick we ever learned on the left. ;o)
Thank you sincerely for what you do.
(the more I try to convey confusing truths myself, the more I appreciate all the work you put in).
There are revolutions and revolutions. What was REALLY revolutionary in this merry month of May was that for the first time in history daily transactions via SWIFT were out paced by daily transactions via CIPS, the Chinese equivalent. Now that's a revolution - and it was reported precisely nowhere in the MSM.
Thanks for the info!
Trump et. al. are, whether they know it or not, putting a stake through the heart of the Enlightenment project, itself already engaged in self-murder. Harvard is the perfect target: elites, communist program, feeder for the IC and State, who have already tried to destroy Trump and the rest of us by selling us to the globalists and, finally, a knife in the back of the Soros style agitprop.
I, for one, think charges of anti-semitism and CCP infiltration are convenient buzz words. Everyone thinks, "of course." Meanwhile you go about dismantling the neo-BLM projects that are in the works before they get off the ground. Kahlil, for example, is from City of London and now he's sitting in a holding tank in Louisiana, where he can be interrogated at leisure, and whatever he was cooking up at Columbia is 86'd, with only a few peeps about free speech left behind.
I am bothered by the government--in this case President and DHS Secretary--accusing a school of multiple mideeds, and subsequently taking over what is in effect a private university.
Before I write more: I do not support propaganda courses teaching falsehoods, training students how to think and act like globalists, or teaching that one group or race is superior to another.
If government officials do not like some of the courses that Harvard offers, then stop giving them money. If the government does not approve of a Harvard research project, do not finance it.
I would like to know details about the charges of racism against the school. Were Jewish students mocked, bullied, or beat up by other students? Did professors treat Jewish students unfairly?
I am thinking that anti-genocide protests on campus play a part here. 'It's not nice to criticize Mother Israel!'
I noted that associations with both China and Iran were included in the govt's charges. Is this because the "Axis of Evil" still exists, according to the US govt? Thus Russia, China, and Iran are bad--they are the enemies of the US? Some may say Russia is not in the enemy axis...if they aren't, then why is the US continuing to arm and finance the green goblin and his orcs in Ukraine as they then harm and kill Russian civilians and soldiers?
I am praying for a good settlement here with Harvard, and with other universities upcoming.
A final question: what will happen to Harvard's foreign students that do not transfer to another school? Will they be deported, and perhaps first placed in a Louisiana prison?
Excellent points. With a +50 billion endowment, why take taxpayer funds? As an aside, I wonder how many “Harvard trained” lawyers are responding to their alma mater’s lawsuit against the Trump admin?! More ironies…
According to Benz (video posted by Mark just below), the US government subsidies come to 9billion USD.
Quite interesting 11 minute video w/ Mike Benz. I'm not a Benz cultist but he's quite cogent:
https://x.com/i/status/1925743494120755499
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RE: @Harvard foreign student ban
Trump is making an incredible error -- his stated goal to reduce antisemitism and anti Americanism
The opposite will occur worldwide - everyone sees this for what it is
Instead Trump should have insisted in a broader teaching/professor staffing
an equal weight of Conservative Republican Libertarian Democrat and Far left teachings / teachers
Trump missed a valuable moment where few could argue - a change in the voices teaching all areas of law and society rather than a willy nilly removal of certain students
Trump has been making incredible errors - very bad judgment
.
I don't buy everything he says, but his exposition of how Harvard operates in conjunction with the government and Deep State is quite good.
Mike Benz, "Harvard is not what it seems"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYFzusy3Or8
Harvard is not a university, it is a business, sponsored by US government to conceive and carry out policies favorable to US money interests.
___
--If that is the case, why shut it down?
Suggest the pattern of the jewel wasp explains the phenomenon, if you imagine that Harvard is the cockroach that has been used by the jewel wasp, has done its job, and is now a useless entity. (Didn't Bibi say something about using USA until time to blow it away like a dry leaf?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovo_T0KqdYg&t=10s
If spreading to other universities, it could definitely be a revolution: now Penn.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/education-department-launches-investigation-upenn-over-foreign-donations
Where to begin with the ironies…I’m thinking of (Harvard!) mega-donor Bill Ackman who, a mere six months ago, was calling for Harvard’s then president Claudine Gay, and its board, headed by Penny (aptly named) Pritzker, to resign due to fiscal mismanagement and the infestation of DEI which he blames for antisemitism on campus. Now we could say Trump has picked up this ball and thrown it to Noem, who has just heaved it at Harvard…haven’t been on X, but Ackman must be quite nervous!
Watch my link to Mike Benz above re Penny Pritzker and the Harvard Corp.
Ok!
Very clearly analyzed. I had not listened to him before. “Harvard is a racket.” Eye popping.
Ackman pointed out, on X, I think, how difficult it is for Harvard to generate the money it needs because so much of its wealth is tied up in property, etc. that cannot be easily liquidated. Also, just this afternoon, Dr Malone posted a great analysis of what is going on at Harvard, including Course Titles/ Summaries. It was enlightening, to say to the least. Worth a look!
Tx Marie - yes I did read Dr Malone’s article. Also, I heard from a friend, a former professor of Spanish at Loyola, that about 25% of foreign students at Harvard are…Chinese.
Marie, I had just read Dr. Malone's recent post WWF: Pres. Trump vs. Harvard. I read through the sampling of Harvard courses that teach the history of communism in China, law courses in how to handle different kinds of justice cases, and more. I do not know which of the courses listed are required.
I have a degree in Psychology. My required coursework included introductions to theorists with whom I did not agree. I chose not to pursue study (as electives) of those particular theories.
In most colleges nowadays, I daresay comparable courses to those listed by Dr. Malone are likely offered. If I was in the process of choosing a college, if I saw one or more required courses as repugnant to my faith, my morals, and my worldview...I would not attend that college.
Yes, I had not realized how coursework had changed since 50 years ago. Instead of propaganda courses, students need to learn to think critically.
50 years ago is when I received my B.A.!
There were no gender courses, no CRT or DEI courses, offered at my school.
While we are talking about coursework in the last century, I had US History AND Civics in jr. high. Those were taught in the Chicago Public school that I attended.
Similar experience for you, Marie?
Yes, for me 48 years ago! I had great high school teachers, we had to write a senior thesis (I did mine on Mars!). We learned citing sources, footnotes, looking at conflicting info, etc. etc. We had advanced math, physics, everything. College was a super let down. I didn't understand the left-leaning aspect back then, I just thought they were all seriously deluded!!😊
You were trained well in high school, Marie. You learned not only the subject matter as you prepared your thesis, you learned how to present it properly on paper. Do they still use paper in high school and college?
In HS, I took a class titled "The Research Paper". We were instructed to use index cards as we researched--sources, quotes, thoughts were each written onto a card. When I was ready to write, I placed all in order for good flow and accurate presentation. The cards were a great help for college papers!
I also took shorthand and typing in HS~two courses that paid off big as skills for actually not only my time as a college student, but into my current golden years. : )
If I'm not mistaken, Ackman pulled his sponsorship/money out of Harvard last year, around the time the Jewish "Exodus" program was announced by Eric Cohen of Tikvah --
The Exodus Project: A Jewish Answer to the University Crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWlJu7eDgnM
I vaguely recall some other tax implications of sponsorship of university programs that, it would appear, Ackman sought to avoid.
I believe we may in the midst of a much needed counter revolution.
I recall some shyster proclaiming and making his own a few years back, “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
If I recall correctly, that performer was a product of Harvard as well.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/never-heard-him-notable-columbia-prof-says-he-isnt-sure-obama-attended-columbia
Radio talk show host Wayne Allen Root has been saying that for years.
Did he "attend" Harvard as well?
I'd characterize it more of a devolution (into decadence and psychopathy).
Nazis are evil, and Zionists are evil.
But it takes a unique kind of evil to support BOTH.
Recommend to your critical consideration:
R. H. S. Stolfi’s Hitler: Beyond Evil & Tyranny
A Reappraisal and Political Commentary
https://chadcrowley.substack.com/p/r-h-s-stolfis-hitler-beyond-evil
Thanks!
Excellent
https://sonar21.com/if-ignorance-is-bliss-the-us-is-the-happiest-superpower/
This recent post by Larry Johnson shows literacy rates in 1925, 1955 and 2024 for China, Russia and the US. Guess which country has had a 20% drop in literacy rates since 1955?
I recently read - I believe it was Harvard - but in the 1960s students studied 25 hours a week and about 15% of the students got A's. Now, students study 15 hours a week and about 50% of the students get A's.
and a trophy for showing up..........
Yeah, I used to buy the idea that Harvard was an academically elite institution, like I still believe with, say, the cal tech or mit physics program. But David Hogg's admission and subsequent graduation demonstrates that Harvard's academic rigor is really no tougher than San Jose State.
David Hogg got into Harvard because he's a high profile Jew and an extreme radical. If you look at the percentage of Jews in Ivy League schools and their population numbers they are way over represented. This is what constant accusations of antisemitism gets you. Same with racism claims. The United States is not a racist nation. Yes, racists exist here, but they exist everywhere and often in higher numbers outside of the USA.
I have long said this for small town America in places where I have lived, "good ole boys get replaced and those who replace become the good ole boys."
"9/ But this is misleading. Revolutions are simply a rapid cycling of elites, where an incumbent elite - usually one that is dysfunctional - is eliminated and replaced with a new elite. They have happened throughout human history, long before the left-right divide emerged."
That was fascinating. Especially PP's revolutionary take on things.
Fourth Turning is in process.
NCSWIC
Imagine the unimaginable.
I appreciate your dives into these topics. I must admit that I’m often “not getting” the full big picture but it’s good to stretch my brain nonetheless. Keep it coming, thank you.
Will do.
I'm with Charlies, I appreciate the brain stretching from your writings and the commentators.