Day: April 15, 2025

Harvard Stands up to Trump Then He Hits Them For $2.2 Billion and Threatens Their Tax-exempt Status

We begin with Harvard University standing up to the far-right takeover of American academia and Trump’s lie that a nation-wide epidemic of anti-Semitism is threatening Universities after others have caved into his extortion and blackmail. Joining us to discuss Trump’s vengeance of taking away $2.2 billion in funding and threatening Harvard’s 501-C3 tax-exempt status is Ryan Enos, a political scientist at Harvard University, where he is a Professor of Government and director of the Center for American Political Studies and the founder and director of the Harvard Digital Lab for the Social Sciences and the Working Group on Political Psychology and Behavior. He has a number of articles at The Harvard Crimson we discuss including “Appeasing Trump Damages Harvard and America” and “First They Came for Columbia.”

Trump’s Escalating War on the Press as he Threatens CBS Over an Accurate 60 Minutes Report on Ukraine

Then we examine Trump’s escalating war on the press as he threatens CBS over a 60 Minutes broadcast exposing Russian crimes against humanity in Ukraine which Trump failed to criticize while blaming Ukraine for starting the war as he bends over backwards to appease Putin. Joining us is Aram Shabanian, the former Open-Source Information Gathering Manager at New Lines Institute. He recently taught in Non-Proliferation and Terrorism Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey where his research focused on the Cold War and contemporary histories of Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

A Professor Who Just visited His Postdoctoral Student in an ICE Detention Camp

Then finally we speak with a professor who just visited an ICE detention camp in Texas where a postdoctoral student of his was recently snatched and sent to because his wife is Palestinian. Joining us for an update on Trump, Miller and Homan’s Nazi-like reign of terror is Nader Hashemi, the Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and a Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the author of The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future and Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East.