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"Right now conservatism is alive. It's at war with itself." We spoke with legendary Harvard University professor Harvey Mansfield about liberalism, conservatism, political philosophy, and why it's important to live in a country where our ambitions are checked by those who oppose us. His new book, The Rise and... show more

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Bill Ackman Bill Ackman discusses President Trump's battle with Harvard. Bill Ackman: "The wrong thing to do is receive a letter from the Administration and write back saying: we're doing nothing and in fact, we're going to sue you." "What Harvard should have done is say: President Trump - you make some good points. Taxpayer money coming to Harvard is a privilege, not a right." Taxpayer money going to an institution - an institution cannot have massive amounts of administrative bloat, waste, bureaucracy- we're going to eliminate it." Bill Ackman goes further on the culture at Harvard. "There is not viewpoint diversity at Harvard. Students are self-censoring their remarks in classrooms. Faculty are doing the same - people are afraid to have real conversations. You go to college to be exposed to a broad array of ideas - and that's not happening at Harvard. Free speech is not happening." On Trump trying to make a deal with Harvard. "He (President Trump) wants to make a deal. Make a deal with the President. Commit to fix these things, which by the way, your alumni want you to fix - it's in the best interest of Harvard. Treat shareholder taxpayer money as a fiduciary." Fair or unfair to take the tax exempt status away? "I think it's fair. Harvard became over time a political advocacy organization for one party. When a University goes from being a University to effecting and becoming a political activist organization - it doesn't deserve a non-profit status." "Harvard should be a place where students go to learn and the best research gets done. It shouldn't be a place that is allowing pro-terrorist orgs on campus and only allows certain kinds of thinking and speech on campus - that's a political advocacy organization - not a University."

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Read this carefully. In the Oval Office on Thursday, the President of the United States was asked how much longer the war with Iran would last. This is what he said. "During the war we have the highest stock market. During, you know, a war. It's not a big war for us, but it's a war." It is not a big war for us. For the families of the American sailors deployed to the Strait of Hormuz, including those injured, and those who lost their lives, it is a big war. For American truckers, retirees, and families paying $4 and 17 cents a gallon at the pump, it is a big war.

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🚨 HOLY CRAP! Trump just went off on Harvard on his way back to the White House, says foreigners are taking the place of Americans at the university "Part of the problem with Harvard is that there are about 31% of foreigners coming to Harvard. We give them billions of dollars, which is ridiculous. We do grants, which we're probably not going to be doing much grants anymore to Harvard....but they refuse to tell us who the people are." "It's too much because we have Americans that want to go there and to other places, and they can't go there because you have 31% foreign." "Now, no foreign government contributes money to Harvard. We do. So why are they doing so many? Number one. Number two, we want a list of those foreign students and we'll find out whether or not they're OK. Many will be OK, I assume. And I assume with Harvard, many will be bad." "And then the other thing is they're very anti-Semitic. Everybody knows they're anti-Semitic. And that's got to stop immediately."

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