NR Daily: Betsy DeVos vs. the Mindless Mob at Harvard

Shouts. Interruptions. Orchestrated chanting. The predictable convulsions of the contemporary university when a conservative comes to town. This time it was U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, speaking to students, faculty, and others gathered at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government last Thursday night. She joined former FBI director James Comey and current attorney general Jeff Sessions as the third cabinet-level official in the span of a week whose visit to a college campus was met with protests, caterwauling, and the now-rote charges of "white supremacism." Against this increasingly threadbare backdrop, DeVos delivered what is probably her best speech to date ...

October 02 2017

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