An American flag flies over the John Harvard statue at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The university is resisting demands from the Trump administration. Photograph: Sophie Park/The New York Times Columbia University, desperate to hold on to $400 million in federal funding, has capitulated completely to the onslaught by the Trump administration on the US’s elite universities. Ostensibly, the issue is its failure to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitism on campus, but the Trump agenda is far more ambitious. It is a determination to bring academia under state control and to eradicate a culture he spuriously claims has allowed an...