Advocates for ideas and draws conclusions based on the interpretation of facts and data. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. President Donald Trump's financial assault on Harvard University demonstrates a fundamental disregard for constitutional law that should concern Americans across the political spectrum. His administration has frozen $2.2 billion in federal grants to Harvard, threatened billions more, and now moved to revoke the university's tax-exempt status—all because Harvard refused to implement government-dictated speech policies on campus. The constitutional problem couldn't be more transparent. When Trump himself declares Harvard should lose its tax-exempt...