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Donald Trump is trying to eradicate Harvard’s inconvenient truths

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We’re sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. We’re working to restore it. Please try again later. View all comments I began my PhD in English at Harvard back in 1996, after a BA at the University of Sydney. Harvard’s president then was Neil Rudenstine, an English professor whose research had been on Shakespeare and Keats. It was Keats who coined the term “negative capability” in a letter to his brother, which he described as the state “of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason”. This condition of open-minded, curious, creative doubt underpins all great universities and is a crucial pathway to knowledge. Universities such as Harvard consist of communities working to make knowledge from a collective dedication to not knowing and not being right all the time. CREDIT: AP Harvard University has not always been a beleaguered underdog. With the world’s news cameras trained on the colonial brick facades and leafy greens of Harvar

Donald Trump is trying to eradicate Harvard’s inconvenient truths Advertisement June 2, 2025 — 7:45pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Share A A A I began my PhD in English at Harvard back in 1996, after a BA at the University of Sydney. Harvard’s president then was Neil Rudenstine, an English professor whose research had been on Shakespeare and Keats. It was Keats who coined the term “negative capability” in a letter to his brother, which he described as the state “of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any

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