Let’s take a closer look at MIT, one target of Trump’s blunderbuss

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is unlike other large universities, and not just because, according to its inexplicably ebullient president, Sally Kornbluth, the football players “thank you for coming to the games.” (Yes, MIT has a team. Division III. So MIT does not play Texas Tech.) MIT’s nature and governance suggest that the Trump administration was not at its most lucid when it made the school a target of its blunderbuss animus against elite universities.