Ivy beleaguer: Harvard hung out to dry
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The Economist
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🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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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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| 1:08.1 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm Jason Palmer. And I'm Rosie Blore. Every weekday, 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. |
| 1:30.6 | The outcome matters far beyond Poland's borders, though, because the country now has the status of continental heavyweight. |
| 1:39.2 | And I don't know how you feel about wine tasting, but I've never had much patience with all that sniffing, swilling and spitting. |
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| 1:59.4 | First up, though. Imagine if the SNASI university you wanted to go to had $2.7 billion of its funding withheld, |
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