US EditionHarvard President on Trump Attacks: ‘The Fight Came to Me’
- Curtis Yarvin and Harvard professor Danielle Allen engaged in a debate at Harvard's faculty club on a recent Monday evening, discussing governance models and the university's influence on the development of influential leadership in the United States.
- The debate stemmed from Yarvin’s radical view that American democracy has become oligarchic and his call to reform elite institutions like Harvard, while Allen advocated renovating democracy with a new social contract.
- During an hour-long event with about eighty attendees, Yarvin softened his harshest critiques but maintained that unaccountable elites from Harvard shaped public policy, while Allen warned against Yarvin’s destruction-driven solutions.
- Yarvin wrote in 2021 that regime change requires physically and economically liquidating universities but insisted Harvard should be remade, claiming "Harvard matters" as foundational to his political vision.
- The debate highlighted tensions as Harvard resists federal funding cuts amid Trump-era attacks on elite universities and reflects a wider struggle over elite influence and democratic governance in America.
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‘The fight came to me’: Harvard president reflects on battle with Trump administration
Harvard President Alan Garber reflected on Harvard’s front-line position in the Trump administration’s battle with higher education, saying some common ground is found in the problems but not in the solutions. “It’s less that I chose to take on the fight than that the fight came to me,” Garber told The Wall Street Journal…
Far-Right Thinker Curtis Yarvin Argues for Remaking of Harvard at Faculty Club Debate
The far-right thinker Curtis Yarvin joined University Professor Danielle Allen for a debate Monday evening, where Yarvin in turn derided Harvard as “an essentially oligarchic institution” and suggested a reformed University could lie at the foundation of a new political order.
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