Ivy beleaguer: Harvard hung out to dry
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The Economist
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🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Trump administration’s determination to bend higher-education institutions to its will seems to know no bounds—and nowhere is getting it worse than Harvard University. The outcome of Poland’s presidential runoff matters far beyond its borders, now that it is a continental heavyweight (11:23). And a bid to elevate the humblest drink to a luxury beverage (19:25).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:10.3 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:14.7 | And I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 0:16.1 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:23.6 | Thank you. Today, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. Poland's upcoming runoff presidential election is yet another European nail-biter of populist versus centrist. |
| 0:32.6 | The outcome matters far beyond Poland's borders, though, because the country now has the status of continental |
| 0:38.8 | heavyweight. |
| 0:41.5 | And I don't know how you feel about wine tasting, but I've never had much patience with all that |
| 0:46.1 | sniffing, swilling and spitting. Our correspondent went to a different kind of drink sampling. |
| 0:51.8 | Do you fancy a bottle of finest vintage? Well, you'd better listen to find out what. |
| 1:01.6 | First up, though. |
| 1:06.6 | Imagine if the snazzy university you wanted to go to had $2.7 billion of its funding withheld, |
| 1:18.6 | and then $100 million more. If there was a risk that it might not even be able to enroll you legally, |
| 1:24.6 | if the country it was in stopped even making student visa appointments, |
| 1:29.3 | threatening a deep dive into your social media accounts, |
| 1:32.3 | looking for wrong think, |
| 1:34.3 | you'd just go elsewhere, wouldn't you? |
| 1:37.3 | The Trump administration wants to have a hand in America's higher education |
| 1:41.3 | in ways that are nothing short of chilling. |
| 1:45.0 | At its biggest target, Harvard. |
| 1:48.0 | We give them billions of dollars, which is ridiculous. |
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