Harvard Rejects Deal With Trump Admin, Putting Billions in Federal Funding at Risk

‘We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement,’ writes president Alan Garber Donald Trump (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) and Alan Garber (Harvard) Harvard University told the Trump administration to pound sand—and take $9 billion in federal grant money along with it. The school has advised its attorneys

Even With Subsidies, Solar Panels and Other Green Home Upgrades Take Years To Pay Off, WaPo Admits

‘The math on retrofits is horrible,’ energy consultant tells liberal paper as Trump plans to roll back Biden climate agenda (Reuters/Brian Snyder/File Photo) Even with generous subsidies, green retrofits such as solar panels and heat pumps take anywhere from 8 to 48 years to pay off for homeowners, according to a Washington Post analysis released

Holding Space: Women Rejoice as Bezos Gal Pal, Others Make History

Lauren Sanchez, the body-positive icon and internationally beloved fiancée of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, thrust her way into the history books on Monday as part of the first all-female crew to travel to space.* Women around the world exuded feminist joy while watching Sanchez and her fellow crew members, including the notoriously buxom musical legend

At Harvard Law School, Students Assemble to #Resist the Firms That Criticized Their Campus Protests

Different kind of paper chase: In the wake of Oct. 7, a handful of Big Law firms criticized anti-Semitic protests at Ivy League law schools like Harvard and threatened to stop recruiting graduates from those schools. Now, the Harvard Law students who helped drive the protests are getting their “revenge.” Harvard Law School’s chapter of

Berklee College of Music Professor Attacked Jews as ‘Vile Predators’ and Blamed Them for Slavery

‘All these so-called Jews mad, because how dare I make them face the facts of their sordid past and present,’ Nicholas Payton said in 2020 Musician Nicholas Payton plays in NPR studios (NPR/YouTube) A top official at the Berklee College of Music has a years-long history of posting anti-Semitic and historically inaccurate claims about Jews,

At Harvard-Hosted ‘Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon,’ Law Students Target the Pages of Firms That Criticized School’s Response to Anti-Semitism

Anti-Israel Harvard Law School students organized a workshop on the Ivy League campus earlier this month to edit the Wikipedia pages of more than a dozen prominent law firms, singling out some that threatened to stop recruiting at the school over its failure to rein in anti-Semitic activity. Harvard’s National Lawyers Guild chapter, a left-wing

Weekend Beacon 4/13/25

Amid the tumult over tariffs, let’s not forget a war rages on in the Middle East and terrorists are still holding innocent people hostage. Douglas Murray hasn’t forgotten. His latest book, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization, has just come out. Weekend Beacon contributor Meir Y. Soloveichik has a review.