PERSPECTIVES: Trump Has Allies in His War on Higher Education, Meet Harmeet Dhillon

From the NEW YORK TIMES: “Harmeet Dhillon (U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights) offered a four-word summation of her four-decade campaign to tear down the ramparts of liberal academia during a private gathering last September. “I’m going after Harvard,” said Ms. Dhillon, the head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, according to audio of the event in New Haven, Conn., obtained by The New York Times. Ms. Dhillon, 57, has repurposed a unit created to address Jim Crow injustices into a battering ram against the elite left. In part, it represents the culmination of a mission she began as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College — to impose conservative change on liberal institutions she still views as the entrenched establishment.”  Read more here. (Gift article)

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