Harvard Scholars Respond to Trump Administration Measures in Gazette Article Featuring Joshua Cherniss

Joshua Cherniss, a current Visiting Fellow at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics and associate professor of government at Georgetown University, was featured in a recent Harvard Gazette article that highlights reactions from Harvard scholars to the Trump administration's decision to freeze over $2 billion in research funding. The freeze followed the University's rejection of federal demands for changes to governance, hiring, and ideological oversight—measures the administration claims address campus antisemitism.

Cherniss warns that federal efforts to pressure universities into ideological compliance threaten academic freedom, hinder scientific progress, and mark a dangerous shift toward authoritarianism.

The full article, "This is weakening the United States," is available on the Harvard Gazette.