Academic freedom is the loser when big donors hound US university presidents | Robert Reich

The leaders of Harvard, Penn and MIT should have clearly condemned calls for genocide but the response has been almost as repugnant

America's prestigious universities play a big role in determining who gets into America's wealthy elite.

A degree from Harvard, Penn or MIT, to take three examples, is a meal ticket to a lucrative job on Wall Street or a corporate law firm and to the richest and most influential people in the land.