Virtue on Paper, Perverse in Practice: The Ivy League Exposed

There’s something almost cartoonishly predictable about the outrage pouring out of Harvard’s leadership this week. After years of preaching tolerance while pushing gross discrimination under the guise of DEI, they’re now crying foul because the Trump administration finally hit them where it hurts—by freezing $2.3 billion in federal research funding and moving to strip their tax-exempt status.

The smug elites running America’s Ivy League campuses—Harvard chief among them—have long operated like they’re above accountability. Their campuses have become echo chambers for anti-Christian hostility and destabilizing globalist groupthink. In fact, they’ve become openly antagonistic toward Christians, conservatives, and—yes—even more so toward Jews since Israel’s response to the October 7 massacre. Now that the government is calling them out for fostering antisemitism and institutional discrimination, they’re clutching their pearls and screaming authoritarianism.

A recent New York Times opinion piece tries to soften the blow by admitting, ever so faintly, that these institutions “have long looked down on conservatives and evangelicals” and have a habit of “disparaging them or simply ignoring them.” But this kind of feigned introspection says a lot. It’s not repentance—it’s lip service. A weak attempt to appear self-aware while refusing to confront the deeper cultural abuse that’s been baked into these institutions for decades.

The hypocrisy runs deep. These are the same universities that love to talk about free speech and diversity—until someone challenges their worldview. Then it’s censorship, cancellation, and silence—especially when the voice comes from a biblical worldview.

Holding Ivy League institutions accountable is long overdue. Now that their agenda is being exposed—whether through open antisemitism on campus or the discriminatory underbelly of DEI—the self-righteous meltdown begins, and so does the gaslighting. But this isn’t persecution. It’s a correction. “Claiming to be wise, they became fools” (Romans 1:22)