I’m not a fan of Harvard as an institution. Certain •people• at Harvard, yes, for sure. The institution, as a public institution, serving the systemic purpose its serves? Eh.
BUT…if there’s any good at all in having a school position itself as a luxury brand that kisses the feet of the ultra-ultra-wealthy so that it may itself may accumulate the wealth and power of a small nation-state, it’s in having a school so self-sufficient and so independent that it can, in times of crisis, take a stand for what’s right and absorb the damage of being a leader.
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