Ira Stoll

1 week ago | theeditors.com | Ira Stoll

Back in 2018 when Richard Pipes died I mentioned an interview he gave in which he explained why he left the Reagan administration. “Harvard only gives you two years leave of absence, so when my two years were up, I returned," Pipes said. That was the 1980s, when Harvard, apparently, still believed in holding professors to a primary commitment to academic life at Harvard—to scholarship. The standards have apparently changed, to judge by recent developments.

1 week ago | theeditors.com | Ira Stoll

Under the print headline “A ‘Made in America’ iPhone? ‘Absurd.’ Experts Explain Why,” the New York Times tries to convince readers that American workers are physically incapable of making iPhones. President Trump has been pressing Apple to move manufacturing of the devices to America. From the Times article, which is by a San Francisco-based reported named Tripp Mickle:What does China offer that the United States doesn’t? Small hands, a massive, seasonal work force and millions of engineers.

2 weeks ago | theeditors.com | Ira Stoll

The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress are stepping up pressure on Harvard related to its dealings with China, even as new and previously undisclosed details about those dealings are emerging. Yesterday’s announcement by the Department of Homeland Security that it is terminating Harvard’s certification to host foreign students and scholars faulted Harvard for its dealings with the Chinese Communist Party.

2 weeks ago | nysun.com | Ira Stoll

The letter issued today by the president of Harvard, Alan Garber, complains about what he describes as “a series of government actions to retaliate against Harvard for our refusal to surrender our academic independence and to submit to the federal government’s illegal assertion of control over our curriculum, our faculty, and our student body.” What Dr. Garber calls a “refusal to surrender,” though, is what the Trump administration and a lot of Americans might more accurately call a “refusal...

2 weeks ago | algemeiner.com | Ira Stoll

New York Times Fears DC Shooting Could Fuel ‘Further Repression’ of Anti-Israel Activists [contact-form-7 404 "Not Found"] The New York Times started the week attacking the Heritage Foundation for a project aimed at combating antisemitism.