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#PROGRESSIVISM: AND HARVARD. PETER BERKOWITZ, HOOVER INSTITUTION

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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#PROGRESSIVISM: AND HARVARD. PETER BERKOWITZ, HOOVER INSTITUTION
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0:00.0

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0:06.8

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0:13.0

that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching

0:18.7

their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

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0:25.8

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0:28.7

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0:35.3

This is CBSI on the world.

0:38.5

I'm John Betts with Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution,

0:43.9

writing his column at Real Clear Politics about specifically the Harvard Law School faculty,

0:53.4

looking to cite, say, the rule of law, pointing that the Trump administration has exceeded its mandate by singling out law firms,

0:55.8

for example, or threatening legal clinics that they must do pro bono work of the administration's

1:02.9

design or punishing people for speaking out on public concern. All those specific complaints do indeed, are they represent an insult

1:15.6

to the American way of business.

1:17.3

However, at the same time, there's an escalation underway.

1:21.7

And the escalation by the Trump administration not only includes canceling the nonprofit

1:26.5

status, but seeking to, I mean, more and more

1:30.1

seeking to destroy the reason for Harvard University to exist, which is excellence.

1:35.6

And after that, I don't think you have a debate.

1:39.3

So, Peter, let us come to some understanding of what is to be done.

1:43.7

You've recommended negotiation.

1:45.8

I would have recommended that from the first.

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