Ilya Marritz

S2 - Episode 1: The Harvard Plan | On the Media | WNYC Studios The Harvard Plan - our collaboration with the Boston Globe, is back! In episode one, we hear what unfolded at Harvard from Donald Trump’s inauguration to convocation 2025. Three main ...

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This year, the Trump admin threw everything it had at the nation's oldest and richest university

3 Harvard profs tell the story of what they saw

@naxerova.bsky.social
@ryanenos.bsky.social & Kit Parker

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S2 - Episode 1: The Harvard Plan | On the Media | WNYC Studios The Harvard Plan - our collaboration with the Boston Globe, is back! In episode one, we hear what unfolded at Harvard from Donald Trump’s inauguration to convocation 2025. Three main ...

We’re back with Season 2 of our award-winning series THE HARVARD PLAN. To quote @ilyamarritz.bsky.social in episode 1 “this struggle is not academic…it’s a bare knuckled fight for money, prestige and power” www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

S2 - Episode 1: The Harvard Plan | On the Media | WNYC Studios The Harvard Plan - our collaboration with the Boston Globe, is back! In episode one, we hear what unfolded at Harvard from Donald Trump’s inauguration to convocation 2025. Three main ...

over the past 9 months, the Trump admin has used just about every lever available to pressure universities to follow his vision for higher ed...

how it's going, so far>>

my lastest miniseries w/ @bostonglobe.com & @onthemedia.bsky.social

pls listen & share!

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YouTube video by The Boston Globe The Harvard Plan Season Two Trailer

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Coming next week from @bostonglobe.com @onthemedia.bsky.social & me >>

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Wait is that the Radio Prague guy

What constitutes "greater China"?

Velchik & DOJ responses here:

I was in court in July in Harvard v HHS & watched Velchik forcefully condemn his alma mater for ignoring anti-semitism. He argued the Trump admin had a duty to respond to Harvard's failings

A DOJ lawyer accused Harvard of ‘indifference to antisemitism.’ As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler’s perspective. - The Boston Globe Michael Velchik once also told a peer that "Mein Kampf" was among his favorite recent reads.

the DOJ atty (& 2x Harvard grad) who suggested Harvard showed "wanton indifference to antisemitism" once wrote a paper from the perspective of Hitler & expressed admiration for Mein Kampf

stunning reporting from
@hilaryburns.bsky.social @talkopan.bsky.social

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You had me at "The failed payoff — a wad of cash in a red envelope stuffed inside an opened bag of Herr’s Sour Cream & Onion ripple potato chips..."

Alan Garber’s former student now holds the keys to Harvard’s future - The Boston Globe Two of the frontline antagonists in the battle between Harvard and President Trump are bound by deep social ties and a shared academic interests.

"The relationship is so meaningful to Bhattacharya that after he was nominated by President-elect Trump to lead the NIH, Bhattacharya asked [Harvard prez] Garber to introduce him at his Senate confirmation hearing, according to 2 sources" www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/11/m... via @bostonglobe.com

ICON
so many hours of enjoyment and delight
thank you, Susan Stamberg

finally, I'll take these words from @lrmayer.bsky.social

people love the unique and intimate qualities of audio serials

they'll always find an audience

in a more modest way, podcasts, I hope, are here to stay

Ashley's conclusion: learn video if you want to stay in the biz

I'm not so sure...if video is where the $$ is rushing in, then video is perhaps the next place to suffer podcasting's fate

this occurs at the precise moment that the producer talent factory is targeted for closure

(full disclosure: I worked in the factory for many yrs)

then, the retrenchment begins, the biz model doesn't hold up

EVEN, as we found out last week, for houses with tabloidy instincts like Wondery (full disclosure: a show I made was picked up by Wondery, "Will Be Wild")

"Serial" captivates millions

$$ rushes in

for a while, it looks like a boat that floats...

much food for thought in this @ashleycarman.bsky.social piece

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A fraudulent cancer breakthrough, a test for the future president of MIT, and a new age of doubt in science - The Boston Globe It seemed like Duke scientists had developed a “Holy Grail” of cancer treatment. Then the truth came out.

it has become something like cw that scientific research has a credibility problem

what I find so powerful about Mike Damiano's reporting is how clearly it shows the incentives in high-stakes high-$$ research encourage self-deception & looking away

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/13/m...

Alan Garber’s former student now holds the keys to Harvard’s future - The Boston Globe Two of the frontline antagonists in the battle between Harvard and President Trump are bound by deep social ties and a shared academic interests.

More on Bhattacharya's journey, and connection to Harvard, here

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/11/m...

Opinion | Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust.

Jay Bhattacharya on mrna vaccines:

"I do not dispute its potential... But as a vaccine intended for broad public use, especially during a public health emergency, the platform has failed a crucial test: earning public trust."

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when was the last time you girded something that wasn’t a loin

Social media has become an antisocial monster. It’s time to call it something else. - The Boston Globe The early aughts brought us the innovation meant to foster connection. It’s consumed us, instead.

"it’s time to create a new term for social media, one that better describes the current digital landscape. After all, no one is calling cars “horseless carriages,” and no one thinks that a porn bot on Twitter is helping you build a friend group"

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favorite article comment #1

everyone I spoke with who knows Bhattacharya well says he is totally committed to science and research...

which may not be compatible with the job he has taken

this is from a friendly peer in the field of health economics

Alan Garber’s former student now holds the keys to Harvard’s future - The Boston Globe Two of the frontline antagonists in the battle between Harvard and President Trump are bound by deep social ties and a shared academic interests.

NEW:
last spring, Trump's nominee for director of the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya, asked Harvard's president, Alan Garber, to intro him in his confirmation hearings

Garber said he was willing

it never happened

now NIH is withholding big $$ from Harvard

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/11/m...

screenshot of Boston Globe story reading "The relationship is so meaningful to Bhattacharya that after he was nominated by President-elect Trump to lead the NIH, Bhattacharya asked Garber to introduce him at his Senate confirmation hearing, according to two sources with direct knowledge. Garber indicated that he was willing to speak on Bhattacharya’s behalf. But it didn’t happen. Days after Bhattacharya’s swearing in, the Trump administration — alleging a pattern of antisemitism and illegal race-based admissions policies at Harvard — delivered an ultimatum that would have ended the university’s independence. Harvard then sued the Trump administration to restore research funds."

Alan Garber, the president of Harvard, has found himself on the opposite side of an escalating battle with the Trump administration as his former student, Jay Bhattacharya

the men have deep history

Bhattacharya has said he "idolized" Garber

they have coauthored lots of papers

even worked jointly on an NIH grant!