Trump vs. Harvard

The family of Nancy Guthrie makes another direct appeal to their mother's kidnapers as the first deadline in an apparent ransom note passes ... Someone sent Tulsi Gabbard to Georgia to look for 2020 ballots. How come no one in the White House wants to take credit for it? ... Plus ...  Show more

We begin with the search for Nancy Guthrie and daughter Savannah's tearful video plea begging the person who took her mother to bring her back home. Then we ask the question: Where's the big reckoning over the Epstein files? There's outrage in the UK, but here not so much. And th ...  Show more

President Donald Trump has been on an escalating campaign to reorder elite higher education. The administration’s Anti-Semitism Task Force has frozen billions of dollars in federal funding after Harvard refused to comply with their demands. WSJ’s Douglas Belkin on the showdown be ...  Show more

This week, Harvard University, the oldest and wealthiest in the US, defied Donald Trump a list of demands. The Trump administration responded by freezing $2.2bn in federal funding for the Ivy League school. This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Harvard professor Ryan Enos t ...  Show more

International Harvard students say they are experiencing “pure panic” amid the Trump administration’s move to bar foreign enrollment, as students from around the world told CNN they are coming to grips with the possibility of revoked visas, suspended research and being blocked fr ...  Show more

This week, we interviewed two people with leading roles in the rapidly escalating conflict between the Trump administration and American higher education. 

Today, we speak with the president of Princeton University, Christopher L. Eisgruber, about the institution’s path ...