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Steven Pinker, in a New York Times guest essay, discusses the attacks on Harvard and shares ideas on what a university should stand for.

Renowned Jewish professor Naomi Oreskes talks about the consequences of the massive budget cuts for Harvard – and the positive sides of the attacks by the Trump administration.

There were problems with anti-Semitism at Harvard, explains Jewish researcher Naomi Oreskes. However, the American government’s attacks on the university are politically motivated.

Harvard University has opposed the Trump administration. This is celebrated on campus. But the fight has only just begun.

The Long Land War tells a story as old as human history: the global struggle over food, water, land, and shelter. The book follows rent strikes, political movements and ideas from Ireland and India to the United Nations, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the rest of the developed world, tracing the intersection of popular protest, nationalism, Communist and capitalist ideology, and utopian schemes involving the potential of small-scale technology and large-scale maps. Through struggle, those movements redefined private property as a collective resource whose value was its ability to support food and housing.