Quits Harvard

Harvard University has lost its credibility among American taxpayers. As the federal government removes billions of dollars of public funding, they counter with the claim that they can do whatever they want to do under the umbrella of free speech and academic freedom. 

Yes, they have free speech but we don't have to pay them billions for misleading students and breaking civil rights law. 

 

A psychiatrist who taught in their medical school felt compelled to break away a year ago. He explained his understandable reasons:

"I stopped teaching at Harvard last year [2024] primarily because of its anti-truth-seeking culture, radical left-wing bias, racial and gender discrimination, and prevailing anti-intellectualism . .  Harvard has strayed from its foundational mission of unbiased truth-seeking . . ."

He doesn't hold back: "Harvard remains in denial of its own radicalism. It sneers and looks down on most of America and on American values like color-blind equality, meritocracy, free speech, hard work, and individual responsibility." 

from "Harvard Insider Blows Whistle: This Place is Totally Corrupted"

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 (cont'd from yesterday's post)

Congressman Cicilline is chair of the House Judiciary's subcommittee on Anti-Trust, Commercial, and Administrative Law. They released a 400+ page report claiming the tech companies violate anti-trust law. 

"Google, for instance, is effectively the only search engine in town, bolstering its own products in searches, downgrading those of competitors, and “extorting” companies that want to get seen by users."

Cicilline's opinion: "Simply put, they have too much power. This power staves off new forms of competition, creativity, and innovation . . Their dominance is killing the small businesses, manufacturing, and overall dynamism that are the engines of the American economy."

His solution: break them up. It remains to be seen whether Congress will agree.

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from Brown Alumni Magazine

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Rhode Island Congressman David Cicilline grew up seeing the occasional mafia member at his family dinner table. His father was, in plain terms, a "mob lawyer" who represented a crime organization.

He became a lawyer, a public defender, and then a politician who advocated for causes. Back in the 1990's he was a "leading force in an effort to dismantle the system powering the political machine of [his own party]." 

The "culture of corruption" in Rhode Island included cronyism. Lawmakers were allowed to "create commissions and boards tasked with doling out millions of dollars in contracts, and then appoint the members [of] those bodies or even serve on them themselves." The state constitution did not separate powers to prevent conflict of interest.

Now Cicilline has a new cause. The U.S. Congress has been investigating anti-trust violations among tech companies. Last July he took the opportunity during a hearing to blast Google's CEO with this question, "Why does Google steal content from honest businesses?"

from Brown Alumni Magazine

(cont'd tomorrow)