Institutions such as Harvard, the administration’s most recent target, have vast financial resources, great prestige and broad networks of influential alumni. If they do not or cannot resist the arbitrary application of government power, who else can? Without acts of resistance, what protects the rule of law? I hope and trust, in the time of testing that lies ahead, universities will both reform themselves and stand up to external pressure. Their future and America’s are in the balance.

 

If Powerful Places Like Harvard Don’t Stand Up to Trump, Who Can?

By Lawrence H. Summers

Mr. Summers, a contributing Opinion writer, is a former president of Harvard University.