Trump’s class war on Harvard – podcast

Is the US president exploiting popular resentment towards elite colleges to achieve his political goals? Ed Pilkington reports

Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday on the grounds that a recent $2bn (1.5bn) funding freeze was unlawful. It is the most significant act of resistance taken by a US college in response to Trump's crackdown on higher education.

Ed Pilkington, chief reporter for Guardian US, explains to Michael Safi that capitulating to Trump's demands would have severely undermined Harvard's reputation, and that the administration was targeting it for being a bastion of liberal thought.