Bending the Knee at Yale

Tuesday, September 01, 2026

Saul Austerlitz, Liberal Currents: [I]t does not require a JD degree from Yale to be aware that Donald Trump's word is worthless, and that reaching an agreement with him will be a permanent brand of shame on any person or institution that chooses to do so. How did so many of the world's most accomplished people become so exceptionally foolish, short-sighted, and cowardly?

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I do not trust people with great power anymore because they have demonstrated, again and again and again, that very few of them have the will or the desire to hold the line against American tyranny.

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Yale: A former Ivy League college turned into a liberal toilet. We all know.

#1 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-09-01 09:46 PM | Reply

I also know you need me

#2 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-09-01 09:46 PM | Reply

Posted by lfthndturds

LOL!!!!!!!

Fug off, garbage brain.

#3 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-09-01 10:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Yale invests in and finances genocide.

#4 | Posted by pumpkinhead at 2026-09-01 10:14 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

fta... "They will be protected from harm. Memories are short and their institutions will carry on as if they had never held the door open for authoritarian goons."

Summer 2015 took my son up (over?) to Harvard... there was a pile of long discarded t-shirts at the "free rummage" for dormies...

A big untouched bunch had a screen print of Bush Jr. looking a lot like Alfred E. Newman with the slogan "Blame it on Yale"

#5 | Posted by South_American at 2026-09-01 11:49 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

A dude chats up a blonde coed in a bar during spring break

"Where do you go to school"

"Misssssississsssippi State," she drawls in an accent dripping in molasses & magnolia.

She asks him, "Where do you go to school"

"Yale"

WHERE DO YOU GO TO SCHOOL?! she yells

#6 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-09-02 02:17 AM | Reply | Funny: 2

#1 always seething with jealousy over your betters, aren't you?

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2026-09-02 10:57 AM | Reply

Pretty good read.

My response to the author's obvious frustration with Yale and other large and powerful organizations and individuals is that these folks are evaluating the risk of either dealing with Trump or rejecting him.

These are people in charge of enormous responsibilities and all the advice from the experts in risk are telling them to minimize the risk of the authoritarian bully by capitulating to him with minimal pain.

I'm not defending any of it and I appreciate Saul's frustration with the head of Yale but what he's clearly learning is how the world works.

#8 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-02 11:49 AM | Reply

The folks at Harvard seem to be about the only school administrators with spines, and they are standing up to withering, yet nonsensical fights from the administration. I've stopped donating to my alma mater (Cornell) because their administration also bent the knee to this fat orange criminal insurrectionist and golf cheat. The damage done by this administration to the mechanism of basic academic research at US universities will last a generation.

IN THE MEANTIME, RELEASE THE TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES...

#9 | Posted by catdog at 2026-09-02 01:39 PM | Reply

-The damage done by this administration to the mechanism of basic academic research at US universities will last a generation.

Why do you think it will last so long? I'm not saying you're wrong but couldn't be reversed by a new administration?

#10 | Posted by eberly at 2026-09-02 02:02 PM | Reply

I'm not saying you're wrong but couldn't be reversed by a new administration?

The anti scientific policies of the current administration can be reversed and rolled back.

But why should people move back? They're establishing themselves in new nations. Making new colleagues. Finding out their lives are easier in democratic socialist nations ...

What incentives are necessary to get people to come back? Especially considering the next republican administration could once again destroy their lives.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-09-02 02:17 PM | Reply

The worst thing Trump did was prove to our allied nations that America is no longer a nation that can be relied upon.

#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-09-02 02:20 PM | Reply

Could we ever really be relied upon?

The Kurds found out in two different Administrations.

Iraq was helped by Reagan and Invaded by Baby Bush.

Hungarian Protesters got sold out after being encouraged to rebel in 1956.

It's a long story of double dealing and cosmetic caring.

#13 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-09-02 03:19 PM | Reply