The Trump Administration's War On Academia - Andrew Weissmann

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Why revoking visas and demanding protest footage from Harvard marks another new low.

In this video, I address 3 key takeaways on the new all-out attack by the Trump Administration against Harvard University and its international students and visiting scholars. This is an attack on all our first amendment freedoms, our academic institutions and higher education, and on “foreigners.” As if that is not enough, it is also bad policy, because we know historically that our strength comes in no small measure from the “foreigners” who come to this country (see, e.g., Albert Einstein, Billy Wilder, Henry Kissinger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rudolph Nureyev, Vladimir Nabokov, and even Elon Musk!).

Here is the link to read the letter that the Department of Homeland Security sent to Harvard, which I address in three key takeaways:
https://www.masslive.com/news/2025/05/read-the-trump-admin-letter-barring-harvard-from-enrolling-international-students.html

Stay engaged. - Andrew Weissmann - 05/23/2025.


00:00 – Introduction
00:38 – DHS Threatens Harvard
01:10 – Visa Revocations & Discovery Demands
01:53 – Citing “Anti-Americanism”
02:42 – Free Speech and Protest Rights
03:45 – Government Requests Protest Footage
04:50 – Accusations of CCP Coordination
05:28 – TikTok Hypocrisy and Legal Defiance
06:00 – Harvard Labeled Anti-Semitic
06:52 – Trump’s “Good People on Both Sides”
07:02 – Echoes of Authoritarian History
07:30 – Brain Drain and Policy Consequences
07:55 – The Value of Global Scholars
08:22 – The Broader War on Institutions
08:48 – Chilling Message to Universities
09:05 – Final Thoughts and Call to Action