Billionaires are cutting their ties with major universities in the wake of the Hamas attack. But why do they have the power to dictate to academia?
The announcement by billionaire Leslie Wexner, the former boss of the Limited and Victoria's Secret, that his foundation is cutting its ties with Harvard University over that institution's inadequate response to the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack in Israel raises a couple of questions.
Koch died in 2019, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology treated his shade to a celebration of his generosity to the university in the fields of cancer research, child care and even basketball. Of his role in suppressing the facts of climate change, fighting access to medical coverage for low-income Americans and undermining the expansion of renewable energy, MIT was completely, utterly silent.
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