Harvard's No Folk Hero & Trump Resegregates America

Program

#RaceClass

Episode

41

Episode Length

27:27

Media Type

Podcast

Release Date

6-7-2025

Publisher

WNHN

Language

en-US

Abstract

In this episode, Jon and Arnie chat more about the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on Harvard University. We highlight some complexities to this dynamic. On the one hand, Harvard is the current bulwark against Trump’s authoritarian effort to control every aspect of every university in the country. For this reason, Harvard’s fight is everyone’s fight. On the other hand, Harvard enabled Trump’s escalating attacks on racial justice and free speech on campus. So even as Harvard deserves our support, it also warrants our continued criticism. We also discuss the Trump administration’s open desire to make integration illegal. Wondering where the idea comes from? Try Barry Goldwater, who in 1964 rehearsed the argument “the Constitution is color-blind . . . and so it is just as wrong to compel children to attend certain schools for the sake of so-called integration as for the sake of segregation.”

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