There Is No Such Thing as a Right to Enrich
And the U.S. shouldn’t acknowledge one, even in theory.
April 21, 2026
Scholarship is supposed to stand above the fray. Claudine Gay thought otherwise.
Not only have the universities been epicenters of anti-Israel agitation over the past years, but they have sown hostility toward Jews and Zionism in the minds of a whole generation of America’s educated class. As Roy Altman argued in last week’s podcast, the hatred for Israel is a product of a much deeper rot. Harvey Mansfield, a scholar of political philosophy who for many years played the role of Harvard’s sole conservative, addresses the problem:
And the U.S. shouldn’t acknowledge one, even in theory.
“You have handed Israel’s enemies a piece of propaganda the likes of which they could never have dreamed.”
Scholarship is supposed to stand above the fray. Claudine Gay thought otherwise.
Artemis II and Apollo 8.
Substantiating a legend.
Not only have the universities been epicenters of anti-Israel agitation over the past years, but they have sown hostility toward Jews and Zionism in the minds of a whole generation of America’s educated class. As Roy Altman argued in last week’s podcast, the hatred for Israel is a product of a much deeper rot. Harvey Mansfield, a scholar of political philosophy who for many years played the role of Harvard’s sole conservative, addresses the problem:
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