How Harvard Won By Making Hate Go Quiet
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Judge Richard Stearns needed four pages to hold that a university may violate Title VI for two academic years, retain every federal dollar it received, and defeat the United States by merely behaving itself once the government’s letter arrives. His order dismissing United States v. Harvardis brief, and that brevity is load-bearing: the reasoning cannot withstand a longer look at the statute, precedent, or his own prior findings.
In August 2024, in Kestenbaum v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, the same judge reviewed the same campus and refused to dismiss a private Title VI suit brought by Jewish students. He called Harvard’s response to their harassment “at best, indecisive, vacillating, and at times internally contradictory.” He warned that crediting the university’s public statements would “reward Harvard for virtuous public declarations that for the most part… proved hollow when it came to taking disciplinary measures against offending students and faculty.” His bottom line traveled around the world: “the facts as pled show that Harvard failed its Jewish students.”
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