Harvard will keep on beating Donald Trum p in the courts, but this is asymmetric warfare. To Trump, the effort to subordinate Harvard to the government is just another amusement, a sucker punch thrown at the snooty rich kid who has done nothing wrong but naturally evokes resentful snickers from bystanders. Harvard, for its part, has shown remarkable institutional fortitude, refusing to bow to the extortionist. But the university — and worse, many of its students — will ultimately suffer for winning.

We’re now deep into Trump’s multifront assault on Harvard. (Disclosure: I went to Harvard Law School.) It started in early April when the Trump administration demanded that the university hire an outside consultant to “audit” everybody at the school for “viewpoint diversity” — among other

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