Elise Stefanik for President — of Harvard

The Ivy League needs a leader with the moral clarity that was missing in the House hearing on antisemitism on America’s campuses.

AP/Mark Schiefelbein
Representative Elise Stefanik speaks during a hearing of the House Committee on Education on Capitol Hill, December 5, 2023 at Washington. AP/Mark Schiefelbein

The thing we kept thinking during the hearings in Congress on antisemitism in the Ivy League is that the right president of Harvard would be Congresswoman Elise Stefanik. Her questioning of the current presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn in respect of whether calling for the genocide of Jews is against their campus rules will become a congressional classic. Each of the presidents refused to say yes, resorting instead to pettifogging.

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