As PT Barnum once said, a sucker is born every minute.
As he didn't say, but probably should have, most of those suckers will donate money to a university.
We haven't heard much from America's flagship college of higher learning, antisemitism, and rampant plagiarism, Harvard University, recently. But it is hardly surprising that, when David Hogg's alma mater decided to make news again, it would be in the most embarrassing way possible.
Recently, Harvard sent out requests to donors, asking for $10 million to hire a few professors who are slightly to the right of Mao Zedong in an effort to promote more 'viewpoint diversity.'
Harvard is asking donors for $10M to promote “viewpoint diversity” while sitting on $50B and a faculty that’s ~82% liberal and ~0% conservative.
— Stephen Moore (@StephenMoore) April 23, 2026
If you need $10M to hear a different opinion in a $50B institution, the problem isn’t funding. pic.twitter.com/4wXjmU7GBJ
It's not difficult to understand why Harvard is doing this. They have rightfully been put in the crosshairs by the Trump administration as an institution of indoctrination as opposed to education. While Harvard is certainly not alone in its ideological bias, it does still carry the name 'Harvard.' And while that name may be mud among people with any critical-thinking skills, the school has more than 200 years of reputation that it is desperately, perhaps futilely, trying to salvage.
It's hard to believe, but many people will be surprised to learn that @Harvard was once considered a prestigious institution. 😳😆
— Last Coin Standing (@LastCoinStandng) April 23, 2026
Lots of things used to be true that are no longer true. For instance, Jonah Goldberg once (credibly, even) called himself a conservative.
As Stephen Moore points out above, the chutzpah of Harvard, whose fiscal year 2025 endowment was nearly $56 BILLION, begging donors for $10 million while it continues to charge students $90,000 a year to matriculate, is pretty breathtaking to behold in its brazenness.
And the university's endowment grows at a rate of about seven percent a year. Harvard could fund 'viewpoint diversity' at 10 times what they are pledging and wouldn't even feel a dent.
More importantly, though, the entire idea that the college will suddenly be 'fair and balanced' because it hires a few non-Marxist faculty members is laughable on its face. Even the school's progressive newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, wasn't buying it:
We would all benefit from engaging with different ideas and perspectives — especially when they push us to test our arguments and revisit our assumptions. Ideological diversity benefits education and research alike. But the current plan to embed 'viewpoint diversity' hires throughout Harvard will not capture these advantages. After all, only a small fraction of students will take classes with these new faculty. It is foolhardy to think that one or two ideologically 'diverse' new professors in a department will tangibly impact campus discourse or the student experience.
The part that the Crimson editorial board won't say out loud is that Harvard's idea of ideological 'diversity' means that they might hire one or two professors who don't wear keffiyahs to campus riots ... err, protests ... on a regular basis.
The point is that Harvard still doesn't get it. The entire reason the school has come under fire for its toxic DEI hiring and admissions practices is that those policies emphasize checking boxes over qualifications. The new 'viewpoint diversity' initiative is no different. It is just DEI from a different angle.
Harvard cannot fix anything about itself, much less viewpoint diversity. Which, of course, is still DEI language, insuring that Marxism is entrenched. https://t.co/t3rYBcVmC6
— Vigilant Penguin (@JamesofPhillips) April 23, 2026
The fact that Harvard is even embarking on this effort, and using the language that they are, proves that they haven't learned anything.
Which is pretty ironic for a school that purports to excel at research.
"Viewpoint diversity" is not a scholarly or intellectual value. Anyone can fill a room with a dozen people who hold worthless, diverse views. As Carlo Ginzburg put it, we should talk less about "truth" and more about "proof".
— Sam Haselby (@samhaselby) April 23, 2026
Explanation and evidence > "viewpoint diversity" https://t.co/fT56QQqpPb
What a novel concept! Hire professors who are the best in their fields, who haven't cribbed all of their scholarly works from others, who can defend arguments with evidence, and who eagerly want to engage students in intellectual debate, rather than tell them all what to think.
This is correct, “viewpoint diversity” might or might not be good, depending on the views. Conservatives should not resort to euphemisms, but simply argue that our ideas are valuable, proven, and required for a campus to have a real survey of the great ideas of our civilization. https://t.co/Np0iyV9Yjj
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) April 23, 2026
Something tells me that if this were Harvard's approach, the 'diversity' would happen naturally.
Needless to say, however, none of those criteria are included in Harvard's initiative. The school is just trying not to lose millions in federal funding (again, funding that it does not need). And, to my endless amusement, they are bilking alumni to do it.
I would hope those alumni are smart enough to see through it. Then again, they all went to Harvard, so that might be wishful thinking on my part.
Harvard’s development office: “How can we trick disaffected donors into giving us money again?” https://t.co/otfZkhpFtm
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) April 24, 2026
Don't get me wrong. If Harvard alumni want to waste their money by donating to the university -- likely to make sure their children are admitted, whether they are worthy or not -- then I'm not here to stop them. As Gordon Gekko said, 'A fool and his money are lucky to get together in the first place.' (Though a Harvard degree probably helps.)
No, the bigger point is that Harvard has no interest in fixing the systemic ideological bias that has destroyed its reputation. They are trying to put a Band-Aid on it for the public. But Harvard's problem isn't a scrape on the knee. It is a cancer that has metastasized over decades. Just ask former Harvard professor Jordan Peterson.
Ten million won't fix that. One hundred million won't fix that. Likely, it can't be fixed at all, but if it can, nothing short of an entire overhaul of the school's foundations, which are infested with an army of leftist, DEI, and Marxist termites, will fix it.
I'm not holding my breath for Harvard to announce that initiative (and beg for money to fund it).
But some dumb alumnus or alumna is about to get a building named after them in the name of 'viewpoint diversity,' so that's nice, I guess.
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