Harvards defiance against Trump: Letters to the Editor April 26, 2025

Harvard president Alan Garber was reminded of something he always knew: Federal funds come with rules and regulations (“Harvard dropped Ed.talks: McMahon,” April 24).Yet, in suing, Harvard’s response to the feds was basically “Screw you.”Its funding should be canceled for the entire four years of this administration.

Same goes for Columbia, Cornell and all the other universities.Each school should get one warning, then any lack of compliance results in immediate cancellation.Brian FinnStamford, Conn.I’m neither the president of Harvard University, nor a Harvard student, but I stand in solidarity with Harvard’s defiance of President Trump’s illegitimate attempts to govern its educational policies.Trump has called Harvard a disgrace, but this is coming from someone I’m not confident would have been able to graduate from the school.Richard SiegelmanPlainviewHarvard University is behaving like a teenager who ran away to escape parental supervision but still calls home for rent and grocery money.It has no obligation to cede to the demands of our government.

But it also has no absolute right to our taxpayer dollars.You want to teach anti-Americanism and antisemitism? Go ahead — but use your own $53 billion endowment to pay for it.Farla FrumkinGreat NeckI agree that Harvard is just one of many universities that have ignored blatant antisemitism.However, to Garber’s point, it is not the government’s role to tell people what to think or read.Unfortunately, President Trump and his supporters want to control every American.

This is what dictators and kings do — not American presidents.Alan PodhaizerBrooklynUsing the president of Harvard’s own words: No government should have “unprecedented and improper control” over a private university.Therefore, no government should give one penny of taxpayer funds to any private anything, especially universities.Mike SantaviccaYonkersApparently the president of Harvard University — a k a Anti-Jew U �...