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1 week ago | 
theeditors.com | Ira Stoll
The article here yesterday headlined “Harvard Law Review Gives $65,000 Fellowship to Anti-Israel Student Charged With Assault” attracted a query from a sophisticated reader of The Editors (a possible redundancy, as there are no non-sophisticated readers of The Editors).
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1 week ago | 
theeditors.com | Ira Stoll
Harvard Law Review, which the federal Secretary of Education announced this week is the subject of a discrimination investigation, is awarding a $65,000 fellowship to the student who faced misdemeanor criminal charges for assaulting a Jewish student during an anti-Israel campus protest.
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2 weeks ago | 
theeditors.com | Ira Stoll
The government this morning released new Personal Consumption Expenditures inflation data for the month of March. They show market-based PCE inflation at negative 0.1 percent for March and both the overall PCE and market-based PCE excluding food and energy at zero.
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2 weeks ago | 
theeditors.com | Ira Stoll
Harvard’s public-relations operation is pretty clumsy, but it isn’t totally helpless. Today it tried one of the oldest tricks in the spin handbook, which is attempting to bury a release of bad news behind a release of even more bad news. We didn’t set out here at The Editors to write a Harvard newsletter any more than we set out to write a Federal Reserve newsletter, but there aren’t many other outlets out there with the ability and inclination to pierce through the Harvard spin.
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2 weeks ago | 
theeditors.com | Ira Stoll
Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, a Harvard Divinity student from Ghana, is one of two Harvard students who faced facing misdemeanor criminal charges of assault and battery of a Jewish student on the Harvard Business School campus. He pleaded not guilty.
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2 weeks ago | 
theeditors.com | Michael Mosbacher
British local-government elections aren’t typically of great interest to American readers. But this week’s vote, scheduled for Thursday, May 1 — the first big electoral test of Keir Starmer’s Labour government since they came to office last July — is worth paying attention to. It will be the first concrete test of whether Nigel Farage’s Reform party has become a serious player, and if UK politics is realigning. A brilliant communicator, Farage was a central player in Britain’s Brexit debates.
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2 weeks ago | 
theeditors.com | Ira Stoll
My morning Wall Street Journal had a box on the front page with a graphic headlined “The Rich Get Even Richer,” teasing a news article inside under the headline “Richest of Rich Gain $1 Trillion.”That eight-paragraph article on page two included six paragraphs that contained mention of or attribution to Gabriel Zucman, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley.
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3 weeks ago | 
theeditors.com | Ira Stoll
What valuable project will grind to a halt because of the federal government’s freeze on $3.2 billion worth of research funding to Harvard? You’d think that with all that sponsored research to choose from, Harvard’s 16 outside lawyers, in combination with the university’s vast staff of in-house attorneys, public-relations and government-relations staff, research administrators, and deans would have an easy time finding a super-compelling example.
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3 weeks ago | 
theeditors.com | Ira Stoll
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis maintains a blog post from 2014 headlined “A History of FOMC Dissents.” The charts only run through 2013. Since then, the history has been largely unwritten, a testament not only to increasing unanimity on the Fed Open Market Committee, but to a loss of the intellectual energy and viewpoint diversity that used to be a feature of the Federal Reserve structure, and especially its regional banks.
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3 weeks ago | 
theeditors.com | Ira Stoll
The magnitude of the ideological u-turn that Harvard is taking in its lawsuit against the Trump administration trying to preserve its billions in federal research grant money is clear from beginning to end of the complaint in the case. From the beginning: the second case cited in the complaint is Nat’l Rifle Ass’n v. Vullo, which, as Harvard’s lawyers summarize it, says the government may not “rely[] on the ‘threat of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion . . .