{"id":95609,"date":"2025-05-23T08:06:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T12:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=95609"},"modified":"2025-05-23T08:12:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T12:12:05","slug":"summers-says-harvard-student-ban-the-stuff-of-tyranny-bloomberg-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/05\/23\/summers-says-harvard-student-ban-the-stuff-of-tyranny-bloomberg-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Summers Says Harvard Student Ban &#8216;The Stuff of Tyranny\u2019 [bloomberg.com]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/videos\/2025-05-23\/summers-says-harvard-student-ban-the-stuff-of-tyranny-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Summers Says Harvard Student Ban &#8216;The Stuff of Tyranny\u2019<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from bloomberg.com<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/media-manifest\/embed\/iframe?id=2cca7829-3a74-4a69-aee2-59df7cf9316d\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers blasted the Trump administration\u2019s decision to block Harvard University from enrolling international students, calling on the institution to fight back. \u201cThis is vicious, it is illegal, it is unwise, and it is very damaging,\u201d Summers, who is president emeritus of Harvard University, told Bloomberg TV. \u201cWhy does it make any sense at all to stop 6,000 enormously talented young people who want to come to the United States to study from having that opportunity?\u201d \u201cHarvard must start by resisting,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is the stuff of tyranny.\u201d Summers spoke to Bloomberg&#8217;s David Ingles on &#8220;The China Show.&#8221; (Source: Bloomberg)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>GIFTED ARTICLE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/22\/us\/politics\/trump-harvard-international-students.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JU8.3O6K.fJ_A6mpZeqma&amp;amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Trump Administration Says It Is Halting Harvard\u2019s Ability to Enroll International Students<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The move was a major escalation in the administration\u2019s efforts to pressure the college to fall in line with President Trump\u2019s demands.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The Trump administration on Thursday said it would halt Harvard University\u2019s ability to enroll international students, taking aim at a crucial funding source for the nation\u2019s oldest and wealthiest college in a major escalation of the administration\u2019s efforts to pressure the elite school to fall in line with the president\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The administration notified Harvard about the decision \u2014 which could affect about a quarter of the school\u2019s student body \u2014 after a back-and-forth in recent weeks over the legality of a sprawling records request as part of the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s investigation, according to three people with knowledge of the negotiations. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summers Says Harvard Student Ban &#8216;The Stuff of Tyranny\u2019\u00a0&#8212; from bloomberg.com Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers blasted the Trump administration\u2019s decision to block Harvard University from enrolling international students, calling on the institution to fight back. \u201cThis is vicious, it is illegal, it is unwise, and it is very damaging,\u201d Summers, who is president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[840,403,35,3,285,353,330,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-ethics","category-game-changing-environment","category-higher-education","category-legislation-legislatures","category-moralsvalues","category-political-science","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95609"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95615,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95609\/revisions\/95615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}