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Tyler Cowen: There’s a Better Way to Fight Harvard
“I suspect that some Free Press readers may enjoy this escalation, or be itching for a fight with Harvard,” writes Tyler Cowen. (Illustration by The Free Press; image via Getty)
I agree with the critics: The school has become too left-wing. The question is what to do about it.
By Tyler Cowen
05.26.25 — U.S. Politics
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When should you escalate?

One of my core principles in my personal life is to escalate the negative as little as possible. That has made me relatively happy, because most of my energies stay focused on positive interactions.

But is it good politics? Can you ever win that way?

That’s the key question for any politician—and perhaps no modern pol is as comfortable with brinkmanship and escalation than Donald Trump.

Right now we see it most dramatically when it comes to our universities, specifically Harvard, which is refusing to accede to his varying demands.

The quad has been the site of executive overreach before.

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Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University and also Faculty Director of the Mercatus Center. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1987. His book The Great Stagnation: How America Ate the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better was a New York Times best-seller. He was named in an Economist poll as one of the most influential economists of the last decade and Bloomberg Businessweek dubbed him "America's Hottest Economist." Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of its "Top 100 Global Thinkers" of 2011. He co-writes a blog at www.MarginalRevolution.com, hosts a podcast Conversations with Tyler, and is co-founder of an online economics education project, MRU.org. He is also director of the philanthropic project Emergent Ventures.
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