Higher Yearning
Readers are no doubt hyper focused on the government’s “totally politically neutral” attacks on institutions of higher learning, such as Harvard. The universities say that the government’s attempt to impose ideological conditions on federally funded research “violates the Constitution and would corrupt the integrity of academic institutions.”
Further, by cutting federal funding essential to sustaining a robust university research environment at Harvard and elsewhere, the administration is depleting the next generation of scientific talent.
I am a product of one of the institutions of higher learning that is under attack. It was there I learned to doubt, distrust, disbelieve, reject and minimize any initiative taken by any large organization, especially “democratic institutions” such as the United States government and Harvard University.
It was there I learned that governments lie, that large organizations pursue no valid interests outside their own and that the only reason that companies such as Chevron, Monsanto and Archer Daniels Midland exist is plunder. There is no dispute here.
We live in a country with no meaningful values, from an institutional perspective or any other, if we ever did. None.
And may I add that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an active buffoon, and not one of Trump’s golf courses is worth a sh**.
Craig J. Corsini
San Rafael
Poly Sci Poem
The lies propagate, and our freedoms unravel;
their cruel despotism stokes my fears.
Alexis de Tocqueville just sh** himself,
and he’s been dead for 166 years.
Rob Loughran
Windsor