The president is venting his fury — a sentence I could embroider on a pillow and use to begin every column from now until 2029, since off-gassing his bottomless magisterial displeasure is the spoon stirring our national existence, now and for the foreseeable future.

His vendetta against Harvard University, our nation’s preeminent institution of higher learning, has raged for weeks: barring it from accepting foreign students, yanking back its tax exempt status, along with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal support. I’m expecting the Army Corps of Engineers to fill Harvard Yard with coils of concertina wire next.

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My first thought was sympathy for Harvard’s international students. Thousands of young people, a full quarter of the student body. Sure, many are no doubt scions

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