The photograph spread worldwide: the Palestinian flag draped over the iconic statue of John Harvard inside Harvard Yard.
The symbolic takeover of the world’s most prestigious university by pro-Palestinian forces was complete.
No single image better summarized Harvard’s — and much of American education’s — decades of ideological radicalism, over-tolerance of reprehensible and hateful thought, university mismanagement and financial greed.
What is happening today at Harvard began more than 50 years ago.