COMING HOME TO ROOST – QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 1:16 P.M. ET:   Some independent-minded Harvard professors speak common sense.  That is big news.  From College Fix: 

Harvard President Drew Faust can’t really be surprised that congressional Republicans are pushing a tax on massive university endowments, the reclassification of “tuition waivers” for grad students as taxable income and eliminating the interest deduction on student loans.

Elite universities such as Harvard basically tell conservatives they are “ignorant, unworthy or corrupt” while demanding a “continuance of largesse” from taxpayers in the form of research funding and student loan subsidies, two Harvard Law professors write in The Washington Post.

It’s not just that Harvard faculty overwhelmingly give to Democratic candidates and Harvard Law is farther left than the average law school faculty, who are themselves “more progressive than the legal profession,” write Jack Goldsmith and Adrian Vermeule:

[T]he distinctive progressive ideology of elite universities is relentlessly critical of, to the point of being intolerant of, traditions and moral values widely seen as legitimate in the outside world. …

Harvard is actually somewhat better on these issues than many universities — it hasn’t had anti-conservative mobs, and it has been relatively respectful of conservative speakers. But even at Harvard, the pervasive progressive orthodoxy chills conservatives’ speech in the classroom and hallways.

COMMENT:  Very well said.  It's high time we visited the whole issue of federal aid to higher education.  Why should we be writing checks to vastly wealthy institutions that should be forced to pay their own way?  And why should we be financing the tearing down of American institutions?

Federal aid should be linked to a college's endowment.  And Congress has a perfect right to refuse aid that is not in the national interest. 

It's time for the national discussion.

December 14, 2017