Higher Education

CNN Casts Trump-Harvard Showdown As About Free Expression—It's Not
On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish casts the showdown between the Trump administration and Harvard and other universities over federal funding as being about free expression. It's not. Universities can teach whatever they want. But they can't have it both ways. If Harvard wants to have complete freedom of operation, it should make like Hillsdale College and reject any federal or state…

Networks Bemoan Trump’s ‘Dramatic Turn’ Targeting Far-Left Harvard
When the “Big Three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC weren’t lamenting Tuesday morning the plight of their beloved “Maryland man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia, they each complaining about the Trump administration freezing $2 billion in taxpayer funding from far-left and private Harvard University, siding with the university’s insistence it spend taxpayer dollars as it sees fit.

Maddow Ignores Anti-Semitism, Says Trump's Waging War On Universities
Liberals may view MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow as something of an intellectual, but her Monday show disproved that notion. If all you did was listen to Maddow, you would come to the conclusion that Trump is waging war on universities simply because he can and not because they have an anti-Semitism problem.

NPR Aches for Hamas Left on Campus: 'Fear Is a New Campus Reality'
In Saturday’s All Things Considered story by reporter Elena Moore from the frontlines of the Israel-Hamas campus wars, she lamented how students are afraid of expressing pro-Hamas sympathies on progressive college campuses: “For some students who protested war in Gaza, fear and silence is a new campus reality.” This, after a year and a half of NPR either ignoring or “both-siding”…

CBS Mourns Self-Deportations, Claims People 'Should Be Afraid'
For Friday’s installment of CBS Evening News, correspondent Lilia Luciano decided to profile Brenda Martinez, a 28-year old California DACA recipient who has chosen to self-deport. Luciano framed the whole story as tragic as she wondered if Martinez was quitting too early, but she also claimed that an immigration judge greenlighting the deportation of anti-Semitic Hamas supporter…

MSNBC Compares Deporting Anti-Semitic Students To Fascism, Communism
The cast of MSNBC’s Thursday installment of Deadline: White House was not a fan of the Trump Administration’s moves to deport Hamas supporters and anti-Semitic students. As they tell it, to do so is to bring the U.S. down to the moral level of “fascist regimes” and “countries behind the Iron Curtain.”

Stewart on Columbia: Trump Doesn't 'Give a F*** About Free Speech'
Columbia University’s own task force investigating anti-Semitism issued a 90-page report chronicling how threats and harassment towards Jewish students have increased since October 7 and how the school failed to respond appropriately. However, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart alleged on Monday’s edition of The Daily Show that the Trump Administration’s demands to Columbia proved they “don…

Burnett Plays Dumb On Latest Anti-Semitic Student To Face Deportation
Cornell grad student Momodou Taal is the latest example of the Trump Administration revoking student visas in light of the holder’s anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism. CNN OutFront host Erin Burnett played dumb on Friday as she claimed that for the administration, anti-Semitism is merely a justification to go after pro-Palestinian protestors.

AGAIN: Critics Avoid Antisemitism Documentary ‘October 8’
It’s charitable to call the chilly reaction to “Screams Before Silence” a fluke.

NBC: Trump Demanding Columbia Fix Anti-Semitism Might Be 'Extortion'
Columbia University accepted the Trump Administration’s list of demands meant to clean up its anti-Semitism problem on Friday, but NBC correspondent Antonia Hylton warned on Nightly News that Trump’s eminently reasonable demands could be viewed as “extortion.”

'Democracy Is Teetering': Brooks, Capehart Decry 'Extortionist' Trump
The weekly gathering of Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks on PBS News Hour was extra animated this Friday as the duo decried DOGE’s “cruelty,” claimed “democracy is teetering,” and labeled President Trump an “extortionist.”

Oliver Claims If Hamas Supporter Says He Isn't Anti-Semitic, He Isn't
HBO’s John Oliver thinks Republicans are racists, and the fact that Republicans would vehemently reject the label doesn’t matter to him. However, on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, Oliver tried to claim that former Columbia University student and pro-Hamas protest leader Mahmoud Khalil isn’t anti-Semitic because Khalil claims he’s not and therefore the efforts to deport him are an attempt…

Yes, Non-Citizen Terror Supporters Should Leave
It should go without saying, but America does not need more Hamas sympathizers. Yet this simple truth seems to confound a wide variety of commentators across the political spectrum. This week, the White House announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be deporting an apparently green card-holding Columbia University graduate student named Mahmoud Khalil. Khalil came to the United…

Stein Tries To Claim Conservatives Are Hypocrites On College Speech
MSNBC’s Sam Stein traveled over to HBO and Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday to express his disappointment in conservatives for not defending Mahmoud Khalil as he faces deportation for his role in pro-Hamas demonstrations at Columbia University. As Stein tells it, people who made such a big deal about cancel culture on campus need to stand up and claim, “This is chilling.”