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    The Trump administration has launched an unprecedented assault on Harvard University, freezing more than $2 billion in federal research grants, slashing another $450 million, threatening $100 million in contracts, as well as threatening to revoke its tax-exempt status and its practice of international student enrollment — all aimed at pressuring the university on allegations of campus antisemitism, “anti‑Americanism,” diversity programs, and free-speech issues. Some have praised the administration’s actions, saying what has happened necessitates consequences. Harvard has pushed back with lawsuits, warning that these federal actions could cripple critical scientific research and chill academic freedom. Prominent Harvard figures, former University President Larry Summers and Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz, engage in a nuanced debate and provocative discussion about whether Harvard failed to contain ideological imbalances, antisemitic incidents, and DEI overreach, and what meritocracy means today at Harvard and other elite universities. Experts who have closely followed this issue and a member of The Harvard Crimson, its undergraduate student newspaper, also joined the discussion. As we watch the administration’s next moves, we ask: Did Harvard Have It Coming?
    
    Friday, July 11, 2025
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David Carr

Published Writer for the New York Times

David writes a column for the Monday Business section of the New York Times that focuses on media issues, including print, digital, film, radio, and television.

Debates Featuring David Carr

Good Riddance To Mainstream Media

With Phil Bronstein, David Carr, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, John Hockenberry, Jim VandeHei, Michael Wolff

October 27, 2009

Mainstream media is dying. The network evening news audience is in steady decline; the big three magazine publishers, Time Inc., Condé Nast and Hearst have all closed or consolidated titles; and the newspaper industry has been especially ravaged, with dailies folding across the country. Increasingly people get their news from the internet and from cable channels. Advertisers are moving on to Google and other non-traditional sources. Do these developments leave us better off? The democratization of news, in an unfiltered…

Good Riddance To Mainstream Media

Mainstream media is dying. The network evening news audience is in steady decline; the big three magazine publishers, Time Inc., Condé Nast and Hearst have all closed or consolidated titles; and the newspaper industry has…

With Phil Bronstein, David Carr, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, John Hockenberry, Jim VandeHei, Michael Wolff

October 27, 2009

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