Trump’s Harvard Assault connects America from the world

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My first days of Harvard coincided with 9/11 horrors. We could not convene, and the teenagers of all nations flapped into the glue seats and knocked back to the general room television again and again. All shocked. All together. The moment and days, the days, since today, have reported more about the power of a society outside of everything.

Already. Last week, the last escalation of the US President’s Harvard, Trump Office He banned the university Print international students “effective in case of effective”. The reason? It was claimed that Harvard could not oppose the teaching of anti-Semitism and “woken up.” “This is a warning to all universities and academic organizations in the country,” Citizen’s statement from Kristi Noem, Secretary of the citizen.

What a warning to do? Bend to the President of the series. (Harvard’s courts were temporarily closed temporarily.) However, the movement of Trump is also a greater warning of the fact that ideas, academic freedom and America belong to the rest of the world.

As a young man has a certain courage in collecting your life and to move to another country. The study you receive is not only intellectually different. You are hybrid, some of your most common years have fingerprints of a culture that is not for you. A person who seizes a place-resistant grace, regardless of your ending, as a result choose Just more than you are born as part of a strange genetic lottery.

Like all good relationships, it goes in two ways. International students can go home, but they do not live, Americans they live. The impact of different ones stretches to both sides, more than one reminder, so that these ideas flow from each place.

Twenty-seven percent of the student body in Harvard are international. However, many other academic institutions have a higher share. In 2023-24, there were more than 1.1 million foreign students in the United States. Using Trump’s favorite bottom line, this is a terrible money.

Yes, Noem can be worried about the use of education fee for the “Help Pill”. Their contribution will be on the end of the recent year. The power is only growing in the result.

And now? Well, international students attract ideas – both the academic and themselves, both saints and themselves. America is a long time, a chance, a dining ticket, a chance, shelter, an adventure and a challenge – often at the same time. However, few people will want to go to a place where they can turn away on the streets or airport. Thus, they will look at another place and the United States will lose.

In the meantime, academic freedom – this is a valuable, historical and intangible driver, which has been part of American imagination for so long. Ideas may not be subject to border control, but there are certainly people. Investigate innovation, requires freedom to walk, has to bring the best in the world and capitalize. It is hard enough to invent a life-saving drug or find the opportunity to create the next technological giant from behind the global community. Just ask the elon musk.

He will fight and run in the courts on Harvard. However, a new generation prepared for the great American adventure in the world will form a new generation and reserve plans. I continue to think with my own brotherly international cohort of two decades ago. Nothing but America’s personal dreams and a sense that the world is enough for all of us.

alice.fishburn@ft.com