DAVID MARCUS: Why do elite universities take in students tied to foreign foes? Money, of course

For centuries the traditional role of elite universities like Harvard has been to train the next generation of leaders in every field of endeavor to hold before them an open door to power and influence So why on Earth are we holding that door open to communist Chinese nationals I had a good friend in high school sharp as a tack double legacy at Yale graduated Harvard Law and by she was at the State Department The joke was Don t piss off Becca she can pick up the phone and have you killed HARVARD'S ENDOWMENT HOLDS MILLION PER ASPIRANT STILL RECEIVES M FROM GOVT ANNUALLYThe point here is that for better or worse and it's often the latter graduates of top schools are meant to create a class of people who lead the country who lead its industries and sciences who stay at the Princeton Club in midtown and wear their college ties A top American degree opens up a world of the powerful that most of Americans don t even know exists much less ever interact with Yet thousands and thousands of communist Chinese nationals are invited to this table every year Why There may have been a time when this influx of foreign students could be seen as exerting informational power around the globe the idea being these students will go home and spread the gospel of democracy free markets and blue jeans But let s not kid ourselves these scions of Chinese Communist Party members who pay their way at Harvard aren t going home and creating movements for democracy in Beijing not if they want to make it to grad school alive and well In fact we are the decided losers in this informational power exchange as not just the Chinese but Qataris and Iranian students for good measure bring ideas and attitudes that undermine American foreign framework to the doorstep of the very people who will implement it This brings us back to the question Why are we doing this Why are we training our foes and giving them access to the inner corridors of American power and I m sure nobody will be shocked that the answer is money Foreign interests lavish our top universities with gifts like a rich guy who got caught cheating on his wife In just the last five years the Harvard Crimson reports million from foreign governments and over a billion from foreign donors flowed to Cambridge For hundreds of years Harvard had educated the nation's great industrialists financiers and business magnates who kept the coffers of its endowment still at a robust billion overflowing But the blue-blood spigot is running dry No the non-binary womyns studies majors at the Harvard Divinity School are not going to be donating a new football stadium anytime soon For that these institutions have learned to rely on foreign money and we all know that money ain t free The money buys influence it buys particular say in how our nation conducts itself During COVID with a limited notable exceptions our country s entire healthcare apparatus just nodded along slavishly to every lie China and its mouthpiece the World Healthcare Organization uttered Why do you think that happened It happened because China pays for research It happened because China infiltrates the highest levels of our society and sadly they have become quite expert at it Secretary of State Marco Rubio is obviously right to insist that we vigorously investigate any apprentice from any nation that is a political or ideological foe of the United States and frankly any association with the Chinese Communist Party should be a dealbreaker The first Harvard graduate to become the president of the United States was John Adams who once famously wrote of his revolutionary adventures I must review politics and war that my sons may have liberty to review mathematics and philosophy CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONBut currently it is our sons and daughters losing opportunities to examination mathematics and philosophy to people from countries that hate America and it is also those countries which stand the the majority to gain in terms of politics and war American universities need to be American universities not cosmopolitan non-affiliated islands of corrupt foreign influence and if the Harvards of the world can t be that then places like conservative Hillsdale College or the University of Austin may well need to replace them If Harvard and other storied elite universities want to return to serving the mission of helping America to be great it would be welcome But in the meantime we don t have to give them taxpayer money and we don t have to let them invite our enemies into the inner circle of American power CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM DAVID MARCUS