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What would Livy have made of Trump’s treatment of Harvard?

Peter Jones
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EXPLORE THE ISSUE 26 April 2025
issue 26 April 2025

It is not surprising that Donald Trump holds the law in contempt. That is what happens when you have a criminal as President. His treatment of Harvard University is an example: he has cancelled a very large grant, saying Harvard is guilty, as charged, of doing nothing about student riots, on the back not of evidence, but simply a collection of opinions.

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