#Harvard: Bill Ackman pushes back & What is to be done? Peter Berkowitz, Hoover.
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🗓️ 7 November 2023
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#Harvard: Bill Ackman and John Tierney push back & What is to be done? Peter Berkowitz, Hoover.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvards-double-standard-on-free-speech
1918 Harvard commencement
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| 0:00.0 | What does Home mean to you? I'm Jimmy Famire, writer, broadcaster and restaurant critic, |
| 0:06.4 | and I've been speaking to well-known names about what Home means to them. |
| 0:10.6 | And it was in the East End, it was in Burmese. |
| 0:13.0 | When Burmese was rough. |
| 0:14.0 | I remember thinking, none of the boys are going to fancy me. |
| 0:17.0 | Gourd-Borotti and a chicken curry, you are full, you are connected to your culture, |
| 0:22.0 | and you may get a heart attack. |
| 0:23.9 | That's Where's Home Really, with me Jimmy Famera. |
| 0:27.4 | Find it wherever you're listening to this. I'm John Bachelors who is my colleague Peter Berkowitz at the Hoover Institution and we turn now to two details, |
| 0:41.0 | one written by John Tierney in City Journal about Harvard University, Harvard College, |
| 0:48.5 | and its conduct these last troubled weeks of Voices on campus associating themselves with Hamas, not with |
| 0:56.6 | Palestinians, with Hamas, the murderers of 10-7. |
| 1:01.0 | There is another document, however, that I recommend to everyone but you're going to you're |
| 1:06.7 | going to read this with some alarm a very famous member of the Harvard alumni, Bill Ackman, who's now a Wall Street voice. |
| 1:17.0 | Bill Ackman has written a letter to Harvard, to the President of Harvard, asking for severe changes to be made right away in |
| 1:26.8 | Harvard about how this war is going forward and the Jewish students at Harvard being physically threatened, intimidated routinely in |
| 1:36.1 | Harvard Yard, in their classrooms, in their dorms. |
| 1:40.1 | He's appealing for the Harvard authorities to act. |
| 1:43.2 | Peter, you know far more about Harvard than I do. |
| 1:45.2 | I only know by reputation. |
| 1:47.1 | I attended a couple of football games there. |
| 1:48.9 | Okay, that's my experience. |
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