Trump's war on Harvard was decades in the making. This letter proves it

On the shelf in my library, I have an autographed copy of a book written by a former Republican congressman from New York, John LeBoutillier, titled Harvard Hates America: The Odyssey of a Born-Again American. It was published in 1978, two years before LeBoutillier was elected to Congress - and decades before the Trump administration's assault on the institution. But its message is familiar in 2025. The book is a scathing criticism of Harvard University, in large part over its supposed left-leaning professors who allegedly indoctrinate their undergraduates. Its thrust is straightforward: Harvard is America's problem. Today, the blueprint for…