Rep. Auchincloss: Trump Threatening Harvard’s Health Research Funding Isn’t Going to Make Jewish Students Safer

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AUCHINCLOSS: "The impact is research that doesn‘t get done, research into how stroke survivors can learn to use their limbs again, research into how to address sickle cell disease throughout the United States. Research into the origins of autism and the countless other important work that researchers across Harvard and its academic medical centers do on behalf of public health, on behalf of national security, on behalf of Americans. Putting that research at jeopardy does not make Jewish students on campus more safe. Harvard‘s telos, what is stamped upon its crest is the word 'truth.' And in pursuing truth, it has to be free from politics. It has to be free from the progressive orthodoxies of the left. And in recent years, it has been captured by those. And it also has to be freed from the authoritarian impulses of the right. And Harvard‘s response to the administration was a step on the road back for Harvard towards true freedom and truth-seeking."